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Serious beef

The Spectator World

CONTRIBUTORS

On the warpath

DIARY

The Albanian question • Jared Kushner may come to regret his Balkan land grab

Side bet • Is the government deliberately disrupting the prediction markets?

Capital crime

Under the influence • If social media is ‘the most important battlefield,’ who is winning?

Injury Time

Killer instinct • In America, murder has become mainstream

DEPORTATION NOTEBOOK

Speaking from experience...

The NAFTA betrayal • How Trump abandoned the Rust Belt

Automation nation • As China’s population falls, machines are replacing the working class

Let them be fake

Time warp • Eternity may not be as certain as we think

Freedom matters • Where is liberalism heading?

Pitch perfect • Miles Davis and John Coltrane changed jazz forever

Spilling the beans • A Brit’s guide to America’s best restaurants

In vino veritas

DC life

Country life

Prejudices

Troubles ahead • Ireland is succumbing to a wave of ‘radical chic’

The Path in the Wheat

THE SPECTATOR'S NOTES

Natural disaster • Don’t blame China and climate change for the Himalayan flash flood

Ring cycle • Tolkien knew the truth about power

So much for the Middlesbrough reckoning

‘Easy in, easy out’ • British universities are addicted to Chinese students

Going for broke

Crowning glory • After Harald, what’s the future for Norway’s royal family?

Death cult • Suicide has become normalized

Mischief and melancholy • The dark side of the du Maurier family

Screen time

Horseplay 1966

Beauty and truth

Love actually • Renoir could be sentimental — but his best paintings are penetrating and adventurous

A rare bird

Music and lights

Moscow mule?

Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls

No life

Still life

A pilgrim’s progress • Making the journey to Assisi, 800 years after St. Francis

Why dating apps don’t work

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Grockles

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