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The Burnham question

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CONTRIBUTORS

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

Burnham’s beauty pageant

THE SPECTATOR’S NOTES

Circus trick • Can Nigel Farage take back control?

‘There’s going to be a big push to rejoin the EU’

Scroll position • Inside Labour’s plot to sideline alternative media

British policing has descended into farce

BAROMETER

All at See • The Vatican vs the Society of St Pius X

The Mancunian candidate • Andy Burnham doesn’t understand his own philosophy

City boys • The people who really run Manchester

Window dressing • Gen Z’s surprising nostalgia for the old high street

ROYAL NOTEBOOK

War is coming to our doorstep

It’s the rules versus the people

What’s the point of Eton? • The school’s new head will face an overflowing in-tray

LETTERS

Tales of woe from our demoralised economy

Beautiful, bedevilled island • Ian Thomson foresees communist Cuba reborn as a capitalist playground

A psychological puzzle

Dangerous liaisons

The Prodigal Veep

Conspiracy theories

The bigger picture

Artistic licence

A modern fairy story

The Stick

In the squared circle

Visions of the Odyssey • Can Christopher Nolan’s film live up to the 2,700-year history of artworks depicting Homer’s epic, asks Matthew Wilson

Shooting stars

Nowhere man

Embarrassment of riches

A hundred shades of quiet sorrow

All American

What Katie did next

The royal treatment

Tans

Best life

Real life

Dolce Vita

The Turf

Super Rapid and Blitz

Elemental

2760: Metalwork

Crème caramel

Red alert

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Why the left avoid heated debate

The Battle for Britain

Our German shepherd

Menander on new leaders

Nigel, my gigolo in tweed

Manchesterism