The Spectator

Every week The Spectator is packed with opinion, comment and analysis about politics, arts and books. We lead the way on the great issues of the day, from political scandals to social trends. What you read in The Spectator today becomes news elsewhere in the weeks to come. We have the best columnists on Fleet Street, from Charles Moore, Rod Liddle, Matthew Parris and Alexander Chancellor to James Forsyth, the best-con

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CONTRIBUTORS

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

Does May even have a Plan B?

THE SPECTATOR’S NOTES

Project Fact • Maybe the shortages and delays in the event of no deal won’t be as bad as we think

A class act • Do the posh really hang out at VIP sex parties?

The National Trust and the evils of heteronormative history

The dragon vs the bear • Does China present a greater threat than Russia?

ANCIENT AND MODERN • New year, old truths

Meat-free moggies • Vegan pet food has arrived

How I became the country squire I’d always dreamed of being

Homegrown industry • How Britain became a world leader in producing legal marijuana

Macron’s prophet • Houellebecq’s new novel predicted the unrest in France

LETTERS

Quiet terror • Why were there so few attacks last year?

Why Macron is happy to leave Ghosn shivering in his Tokyo cell

BOOKS & ARTS

Where three empires met • Hungary’s history is full of conflict and compromise. But even among its many minorities it was a country that inspired extraordinary loyalty, says Philip Mansel

With Friends like these…

The ballad of John and Anton

Theatre of war

Art’s hard graft

Everyone’s a victim

Homage to catatonia

Lesson Plan

Little shots of sedition

From Access to Youth

The making of a monstrous metropolis

A tragic fall from grace

Good and evil on an epic scale

More scenes from my life with Francis Bacon

Trysts among the trees

Chronic Waiting Zone

Big in Japan • Dance critic Louise Levene investigates the balletic, bum-baring rituals of sumo

Love match

Points of view

2019 EXHIBITIONS • FOR DISCERNING TRAVELLERS

Beat it

Welsh

Thinking outside the box

Life at the Globe

Relative values

Brits in Paris

High life

Low life

Real life

Wild life

Bridge

Three titans

The ex factor

2390: Tea shop

Save the male

THE BATTLE FOR BRITAIN

If ever a man deserved his gong it’s Sir Chef

YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Bob, booths and buttons

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