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DIARY

Hollywood ending • The movie industry is broken

Red handed • Inside San Francisco’s shoplifting industry

Trump’s battle for sovereignty

Acid test • Big Pharma wants to sell you psychedelic drugs

I invented Nixonmaxxing

The strange death of Islamism • The clerics’ power is waning across the Middle East

Erik Satie is Alone

Miso MAHA • The rise of Japan’s organic right

The apocalypse lobby • Political donors are lining up to influence AI legislation

Gift from the Valley

Cruel intentions

Shock to the system • The grid cannot cope with the rise in data centers

BEYOND THE NEWS

Power struggle • Why do political elites insist on posing as outsiders, asks Carson Becker

The greatness of Sam Neill • Alexander Larman on the likable Kiwi everyman who lit up the screen

Kitchen nightmares • Why Anthony Bourdain’s shows leave a bitter taste

Pit stop

Havana life

Prejudices

Local life

FROM THE LONDON OFFICE

Simply red • Andy Burnham’s centrist act isn’t fooling anyone

Ex-Boxer

The wrong lessons from a murder

THE SPEXTATOR'S NOTES

Left hanging • Radical socialists are taking over the Democratic party

Fifteen Years and Counting

Burnham should put on a tie

Murky waters • What Ukraine doesn’t want you to know about the Nord Stream pipeline

The Wild West of political speculation

Wild ambitions • Turtle doves and the myth of rewilding

Virtue reality • Wales’s mad policy of decolonization

Mission impossible • Jonathan Sumption traces the course of the disastrous Fifth Crusade

A portrait of the artist

The siege and the journey

Ballet royale • Rupert Christiansen on Britain’s most unabashedly elitist school

Troy story

Original sin

Pop Remembrance of things past

No life

Still life

Made in Taiwan • Is Tainan the world’s most dangerous city?

When in doubt, follow the money

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Tans

Vanishingly unlikely