The Spectator

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Nigel’s choice

The Spectator

CONTRIBUTORS

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

Press ganged

THE SPECTATOR’S NOTES

Alma madder • The burgeoning craziness in British universities

Trump’s new axis • There’s a logic to the President’s incendiary diplomacy

BAROMETER

Point scoring • Why Nigel Farage’s ‘Australia-style’ border policy is doomed to fail

Britain is falling into a mawkish fantasy

Wrinkles in time • Do you have ‘Old Money Face’?

Let them eat celery

War of the words • Who decides what’s racist?

Pen pals • Nothing is as calming or rewarding as writing by hand

How I learnt to stop worrying and love pessimism

Licence to kill • When does targeting the enemy become murder?

LETTERS

Farming today: field fires and food price hikes ahead

BOOKS & ARTS

A cunning chancer • The last Anglo-Saxon king made few mistakes – but Hastings proved a battle too far, says Alex Burghart

Culture wars

Two roads diverge

Speechless messages

Mortals’ chiefest enemy

The way to dusty death

A media revolution

Bird of passage

Horseplay 1966

Party time

Brother against brother

Fit for a king • Why can’t the RSC do Shakespeare like its triumphant new adaptation of Games of Thrones, asks Richard Bratby

Goldfinch

Ai why why?

I’ve got a little list

THE LISTENER

Cooking the books

All in

Paradise lost

Culture bores

Goody two shoes

Shaving

No life

Dog’s life

Still life

Fast life

Battle Royal

Slave to the ’rithm

2765: Some beef

Currying favour

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

SPECTATOR WINE

Say it loud: I’m bald and proud

The Battle for Britain

Finding my voice

Political animals

All aboard the Love Boat

Yoga