The Spectator

The Spectator is Britain’s oldest and most influential magazine, with incisive political and economic analysis, unrivalled books and arts reviews, and unmissable lifestyle writing, plus the funniest cartoons. It’s more cocktail party than political party, and we’d love it if you joined us.

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The Spectator

CONTRIBUTORS

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

The right’s fighting talk

THE SPECTATOR’S NOTES

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

Interloper

BAROMETER

Does Burnham even know why he wants to be PM?

Trump’s Suez • The Iran war is the legacy he did not want

EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK

Herd mentality • The real reason for the Dartmoor pony cull

Burnham’s reality check

A special relationship • The Spectator’s long and close history with the United States

Painting Days • In memory of Bruce Chilton

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

LETTERS

Alan Greenspan and the slow death of independent central banking

Poet of the Holocaust • Anti-Semitism was the leitmotif of Paul Celan’s life, says Graham Robb

Taking the plunge

Palaces for the people

On a wing and a prayer

Hot and heavy

Reluctant allies

What is really going on?

A man with a mission

Lines of beauty • Calvin Po celebrates an architectural counterrevolution

A tale of two cities

Black magic

Face value

Choral examination

Mind the gap

You’ve got Mayall

On the shoulders of giants

Coconut water

Best life

Real life

Dolce Vita

The Turf

Winton British Chess Solving Championship

In the field

2758: Thousa

Chicken Milanese

How to survive the heatwave

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

School’s out for ever

The Battle for Britain

David slays Goliath

Portrait of the artist

Lowe and behold

Exonyms