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America the great

The Spectator World

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DIARY

Anglo inheritance • Constitutionally, America is an English country

A Belfast Stroll

Who is the most underrated American? • A 250th birthday poll

Why socialism will fail

A special relationship • The Spectator and America have been entwined from the start

Painting Days • In memory of Bruce Chilton

What Britain taught us

Losing battle • What George Washington learned from Brooklyn Heights

The great emancipator • How my relative, Sir George Cockburn, rescued 6,000 slaves

Founding Fathers of AI • The new barons want control — not freedom

The making of America • What united the 13 colonies still holds together the mightiest nation on Earth, writes Simon Jenkins

Land of the flop • Where are the good films about Independence Day, asks Alexander Larman

COCKTAIL RECIPE: DOS HOMBRES CRANSTONIAN

Hearty constitution • The republic’s public life started with dinner

A new leaf • It’s time to give tea a second chance

In vino veritas

New York life

Prejudices

Havana life

Burnham’s odyssey • Can he resist the siren call of the left?

Interloper

Portrait of the artist

THE SPECTATOR’S NOTES

Butterfly effect • Ten years on, the benefits of Brexit are obvious

Daylight

The New York Times hates Britain

Hat tip • Take your cap off in church

Does Burnham know why he wants to be PM?

Long suffering • Lengthy holidays are the worst

It’s not all over for two-party politics

Resale therapy • There’s no excuse not to dress well

Life lines • Anne Sebba on the wartime heroics of the blood transfusion units

Flights of fancy Horatio Clare

Are we alone?

Out of the closet • Peter Parker on how queer art went mainstream

Extinction rebellion

What a carve-up

Beisembayev’s Mozart

No life

Still life

Worlds apart • The Plymouth of today bears no resemblance to the land of the Pilgrims

We need more men like Peter Murrell

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Tribute bands

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