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DIARY

The reckoning • Europe is retreating from Trump toward danger

The Signal Box Revisited

Power trip • Will Trump and Xi give each other what they want?

Four Seasons

The incredible case of Dr. Gorka • ‘He’s not a fascist, more fascist curious’

B Roads

The benevolence trap

Never Rubio • The Secretary of State is shaping up to be the blunderer-in-chief

Don’t write off the right

Death sentence • Despite Trump’s efforts, capital punishment is in decline

Zombie fillers • How the fat of the dead is plumping up the super-rich

The return of animism

Data rage • How activists are taking on Big Tech — and winning

Still burning brightly • Anne Margaret Daniel meets Manhattan’s sassiest social novelist Jay McInerney

Declarations in Venice • The US pavilion at this year’s Biennale sends a clear message from the Deep State, writes James Panero

Palm life

Prejudices

New York life

An outside bet • Dining al fresco in Chicago is always a challenge

Pit stop

Maine character • A walk in the woods would do our politicians a world of good

Red alert • Who will decide Labour’s fate?

Farage à la carte

THE SPECTATOR'S NOTES

Death trap • Russians no longer believe Putin’s war propaganda

Relieving taxation

The unstoppable rise of stupidity

NOTEBOOK

Things can always get worse

BAROMETER

Unwellness • Cancer is rocketing among younger people

Let’s ditch the idea of the ‘black vote’

The trials of Lady Chatterley • D.H. Lawrence would have been mortified by the tacky merchandise spawned by his last novel, says Frances Wilson

All aboard the QE2

Angel or demon?

Flower shows • Melanie McDonagh on three new plant-based treats

She wore it well

Make mine a triple

Turning Japanese

No life

Real life

The left needn’t worry about the Reform apocalypse

MICHAEL HEATH

The ‘airport effect’ that’s ruining modern life

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Fridge magnets

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