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PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

The wrong lessons from a murder

THE SPECTATOR’S NOTES

Burnham begins • The plans for his first ten days

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BAROMETER

Two-tier mourning

Smooth sailing • Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is a triumph

Sick of it • Disability should not be aspirational

Soul sisters • Are you enjoying a ‘nun girl summer’?

Bring back the nasty party

Wild ambitions • Turtle doves and the myth of rewilding

Funny business • Social media has saved comedy

Virtue reality • Wales’s mad policy of decolonisation

LETTERS

Binface has shown Burnham how to make a manifesto

BOOKS & ARTS

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

Pushing the boundaries

Parisian vignettes

Erik Satie is Alone

A portrait of the artist

Buried in the bog

Radical chic

Crime fiction • The Germans are coming

The siege and the journey

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

Worst in show

Haydn seek

Cinema Troy story

Remembrance of things past

Uncivil partnership

Original sin

Panini stickers

No life

Sophia Money-Coutts

Catriona Olding

Tanya Gold

Naroditsky Memorial

Resignation

2761: Alphabetical Jigsaw

Hello, Mr Chips

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

SPECTATOR WINE

Call yourselves football fans?

The Battle for Britain

When in doubt, follow the money

Farage’s fear

Restore resurgent

Vanishingly unlikely