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Councils of despair

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CONTRIBUTORS

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

Border warfare

THE SPECTATOR'S NOTES

Nation of shoplifters • Shameless rule-breaking is taking over Britain

Unearthing

Dog days • The unstoppable social rise of the whippet

The ‘special relationship’ was always a delusion

After Starmer • Revealed: the secret plans for Labour’s future

Marathon sprints

LETTER FROM AMERICA

Under fire at the White House dinner

Test of faith • My clash with the Vatican’s cricket team

With a shudder, I’m voting Labour in the local elections

Poor results

Greenshirts on the march • Zack Polanski’s party are the real racists

The Lords’ Rotterdämmerung

LETTERS

Searching for hope as Labour harms everything it touches

A breeding ground for evil • Caroline Moorehead on the deep divisions in interwar Germany which allowed Nazism to flourish

Where the wild things are

Magic tricks

Making an impression

The boy next door

The uncertainty principle

Mystic energy

The other French revolution

The Syrian tragedy

High table talk

A tonic to the nation? • On its 75th anniversary, Calvin Po considers the mixed legacy of the Festival of Britain

Wayne’s world

Full of Eastern promise

Franz Xaver Richter: Four Symphonies

Mad men

Godmother of grunge

The magic ears of Hyperion

Man behaving badly

Withering heights

Rosé

Catriona Olding

Melissa Kite

Charlie Brooks

Oeuf mayonnaise

Women’s Candidates

Ouch

2750: Lincoln Memorial by the team

It’s not Reform-voting parents who are ruining families

MICHAEL HEATH

Sawe has demolished the impossible

YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Dream palace

Picky bits