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The Spectator World

CONTRIBUTORS

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DIARY

Mexican standoff • How the US is taking on the country’s narco-politicians

Fallow Deer

Don’t bet on a blue wave

Saints and sinners • The Catholic Church still has a complicated relationship with Mexico’s drug lords

Soil and trouble • Farmers must learn to live without government bailouts

The warfare state • Defense spending has become an essential part of economic policy

Creedal notion • Why does Justice Neil Gorsuch believe that America is an ‘idea’?

Trumping Iran

Pratt summer • This reality TV star is the mayor LA needs

Cogs in the machine • Will we all lose our jobs to robots?

Let AI eat the universities

Space oddity • Elon Musk is deluded about life on Mars

Imbalanced humor • Alex Diggins wonders where all the funny Republicans went

New tricks • Alexander Larman explains why Arthur Miller is back in the limelight

Taste of victory • How California rocked the French wine industry to its core

In vino veritas

Havana life

Prejudices

Local life

Critical mass • The Pope’s AI intervention shames our politicians

Cups and Bowls

THE SPECTATOR'S NOTES

Warning shot • Weight-loss drugs have reduced my appetite for life

The man who would be king • Andy Burnham is deeply ambitious — but could he be prime minister?

By Candlelight

A debt crisis is anything but abstract

WINNER’S NOTEBOOK

Can Reform smash its class ceiling?

Classic mistakes • Why lists of great novels are so grating

Plato, the proto-feminist

Cry babies • The rise of the child-haters

Modern love • Marcel Duchamp’s relationship with New York helped mold him as an artist, writes Lynn Barber

Redshirts on the march

Upping the ante

The Adulterer’s Mirror

Portrait of an artist • Derek Jacobi talks to Martin Gayford about the challenges of playing the painter Lucian Freud

Cover story

Worst in show

TikTok watching

War Child

Dolce vita

Real life

Walk of life • My annual pilgrimage along the route of the Berlin Wall

The Wiki Man • My points-based system for choosing our leaders

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Tennis

Psychodrama