The Spectator

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PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

The Miliband supremacy

THE SPECTATOR’S NOTES

‘The Tory vote will disintegrate overnight’ • Inside Reform’s plan to devour the Conservatives

New Hat

Acting out

Regime change may make matters worse

Battle softened • Our army has lost its fighting spirit

LETTER FROM HAVANA

Who’d want a Cameo from me?

Capital punishment • An A-Z of London horrors

There is no ‘special relationship’ with Trump

The end of Trumpism • The President has fatally miscalculated by attacking Iran

The glaring flaw in Starmer’s ‘cohesion plan’

Gown and out • The hidden truth about our failing universities

BAROMETER

LETTERS

Revolut’s banking licence: a win for Reeves or a red flag?

The world narrows • As old friends die and his capabilities wane, Alan Bennett becomes increasingly reflective, says Philip Hensher

Being Wystan

From magic to realism

The third Rome

Honest, kind and fair

A chronicle of vanishing freedom

Inherited trauma

Fab four • The cellist of the world’s finest string quartet is about to retire. Richard Bratby meets him

Saint and sinner

In thrall to virtuosity

Brat spring

Mr president

Would he go full Doddy?

Resident Evil: Requiem

Mary, Mary, not contrary

Skits on sexuality

Kimonos

Dolce vita

Real life

The turf

Chocolate mousse

Varsity Match

Budding poets

2744: Fiddles

Manosphere and loathing

The Battle for Britain

Arsenal’s boy wonder is the future of English football

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Antipasti? I’m pro

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