The Spectator

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PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

Labour’s next rebellion

Farage’s voyage • Can Reform plot a route to No. 10?

Last Acts

Trump’s revolution • Europe must adjust to a new reality

Has Trump gone mad?

Mullahs cornered • What Trump’s coup in Venezuela means for Iran

Latin rights • Will the ‘Donroe Doctrine’ succeed?

The young women hypnotised by Polanski

The lost girls • Foetal femicide has arrived in Britain

Call to arms • European countries are expanding their militaries. Why aren’t we?

Shame and infamy

Band of brothers • The Met’s attack on Freemasonry is unjustified

In praise of the climate ‘emergency’

Driven to distraction • Our cars are getting bossier

No sex please, we’re Gen Z

Breaking cover • Beware the fake independent bookshop

LETTERS

Trump’s shift to the dark side: it’s all about extraction

BOOKS & ARTS

Reaching for the divine • Even when David Bowie was not talking directly about religion, his lyrics were often intensely spiritual, says Helen Barrett

Parched earth

Dreaming of Australia

Be careful what you wish for

The whole Pink Floyd thing

Secrets and lies

Inventive creations

Mr Nice Guy

Knowledge Revises

Catch as catch can

For better, for worse

The man and the myth

Sound and vision • Philip Clark on the genius of Morton Feldman

The Apprentice in frocks and waistcoats

String theory

The sound and the fury

Body of evidence

Bring up the bodies

Mourning glory

Judgment of Paris

Coffee machines

No life

Real life

The turf

Roast potatoes

World Rapid and Blitz

Elementary

2734: Back-up

V is for victory

The Battle for Britain

Don’t blame Ben Stokes

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Great Scott’s

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