The Spectator

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PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

The Tories’ reasons to be cheerful

Plumbing the depths • Britain’s new anti-Semitic alliance

Cockerel

CHEF’S NOTEBOOK

Reading is the ultimate life hack

Manchester for sale • The city’s uncomfortably close links to the UAE

BAROMETER

Rogues and naves • Don’t take cathedrals for granted

The Islamification of Texas

Gilets jeunes • What’s really behind the French protests?

The age of reason • Whatever happened to the midlife crisis?

A radical solution to the prisons crisis

Up next... • An exciting new soap opera

LETTERS

Banks should stand up for themselves

A special obsession • Katja Hoyer explores the complexities of Anglo-German relations over the past three centuries

What is writing for?

Unloved by his men

Time after time

Pillow talk

A genuinely awful person

A war of images

A ringside view

The lady vanishes

From Russia with love • Rupert Christiansen talks to the 99-year-old impresario Lilian Hochhauser about bringing some of the Soviet Union’s greatest talents to Britain

Booby prize

Mark time

Reading matters

Heaven on Earth

Wild at heart

There will be blood

On the money

The great pretenders

Marvel’s Wolverine

Addresses

No life

Dog’s life

Still life

Fast life

Tightrope walking

Jolie laide

2773: Venomous

Pared-down perfection

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

SPECTATOR WINE

We are ruled by a bunch of tech-illiterates

The Battle for Britain

Home economics

Migrant rights

Life’s rich tapestry

Whim-whams