The Spectator

The Spectator is Britain’s oldest and most influential magazine, with incisive political and economic analysis, unrivalled books and arts reviews, and unmissable lifestyle writing, plus the funniest cartoons. It’s more cocktail party than political party, and we’d love it if you joined us.

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The Spectator

CONTRIBUTORS

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

Can Reform reform?

THE SPECTATOR'S NOTES

The autistocracy • The men on the spectrum who rule our world

Educating Archie • I’ve found the perfect school for the Sussex children

Who exactly can wear a face covering?

Bibi’s break • How Miliband’s sanctions have helped Netanyahu and damaged UK security

America is not our friend

Last supper • Canon Brian Brindley’s unforgettable 70th birthday feast

Swing state • I’m a Canadian nationalist

How to defeat Reform on immigration

Man overboard • Don’t fear the manosphere

BAROMETER

White lie • The impossibility of keeping a shirt clean

Reading but not as we know it

LETTERS

‘You can’t tax your way to growth’ in hotels or anywhere else

In with the new • David Kynaston’s sixth volume in his Tales of Jerusalem series contains some of the most defining moments of the whole postwar period, says Philip Hensher

Mind the gaps

Mimmoths everywhere

The male gaze

Too much, much too long

Revenge reimagined

The pain passed down

Art conquers all

My Brother, Back Again

‘Maps are uniquely powerful things’ • Alex Diggins talks to the man who is trying to save Britain’s last great map library

Black and blue

Shine and sing

Toffs and tinkers

To die for

Love, actually

All about Steve

Wings of desire

Dogs barking in the distance

Best life

Real life

Dolce Vita

The Turf

Tech Mahindra Global Chess League

Back to it

2770: Effwun

Cornbread

Time in a bottle

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

The little magazine that could – for a bit

The Battle for Britain

The Hungary games

The quest for likes

AI slop

Lord Peter