The Spectator

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PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

‘My contacts are my superpower’

THE SPECTATOR'S NOTES

Battle for the books • The growing rebellion against screens in schools

Fag Break

‘It’s all happened wickedly fast’ • Meet the neuroscientist taking on classroom tech

There’s no such thing as a clean execution

Foot-in-mouth syndrome • Does Andy Burnham have a foreign policy?

A Special Occasion

The patronising lies about English identity

Age of extinction • Humanity is lost on our AI overlords

Drawing the line • Can the US force a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine?

What will survive of us

Heir to the drone • How Swindon became Britain’s defence hub

HISTORIAN’S NOTEBOOK

Fentanyl, coming soon to a park near you

Vox pop • Spain’s snap election could give its far-right party a share of power

LETTERS

The real Libor scandal is the incompetence of the SFO

A lovesome thing • Ruth Scurr on the garden as a source of inspiration through the ages

The ideological agenda

Sour gripes

The underbelly of globalisation

In love and war

The final reckoning

Birth dearth

Philosophy

The mystery deepens

Dramas galore

The last days of video • Hermione Eyre explores our obsession with the 1990s

The great escape • Deiniol Brown hails the return of 1970s’ yacht rock

Location, location, location

Inside stories

North star

Manhattan transfer

Zoo etiquette

Best life

Real life

Dolce Vita

The Turf

Combinations

Bayeux mania

2774: Sticky

Braised short ribs

Les bouteilles d’antan

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Look me up on Wikipedia and see how biased it is

The Battle for Britain

Is world rugby having a moment?

The same old story

A family inheritance

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