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PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

Gordon Brown’s second term

THE SPECTATOR’S NOTES

Tolerating tyranny • Britain’s shameful paralysis over Iran

Apologists for evil • The regime’s defenders are on borrowed time

After the Ayatollahs • US intervention could push Iran into civil war and terrorism

Brave New World

Freed from desire • My bittersweet liberation from my libido

The age of absolutism

Cold blood • The Kremlin’s plan to create a new wave of Ukrainian refugees

Our growing obsession with race

Live by lawfare, die by lawfare

Grace period • The challenges facing the new Archbishop of Canterbury

Schoolboy error • The joyless reading app being forced on our children

Dying matters

There should be no ‘sanctuary’ from ICE

Mob rule • Inside Oldham’s toxic politics

BAROMETER

LETTERS

Trump’s attack on the Fed is a pivotal moment of hubris

BOOKS & ARTS

‘This hybrid stuff’ • Julian Barnes has announced that he has written his last book. It is a masterpiece of narrative trickery, says Frances Wilson

Anxious times

Sounds familiar

On the run

Dylan’s mystique

Family dramas

The pint-sized prodigy

Write what you know

The Turn-On

And then the Revolution came

The games people play

Water marks • Richard Bratby celebrates the rich cultural heritage of transatlantic liners

We have ways of making you laugh

Private lives

The great pretender

Rich pickings

The rise and fall of the football presenter

Heaven knows he’s miserable now

Go west

Long hair

Best life

Real life

Wild life

SPECTATOR WINE

Remembering Jonathan Hawkins

Alternative facts

2735: Royal following

Grok is the Botticelli of our time

The Battle for Britain

The speed-camera approach to government

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

The perfect January red

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