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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PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

The women lining up against Trump

THE SPECTATOR’S NOTES

May’s final mission • The Prime Minister has been given one last chance to save Brexit. Will she succeed?

Venturing Out

Europe’s blind spot • The EU still doesn’t understand Brexit

Millwall aren’t half as racist as you think

CARACAS NOTEBOOK

Up the spiral staircase • The DNA revolution presents an amazing opportunity for the NHS

Let the sequencing begin

Old flame • Induction hobs are all the rage, but nothing beats gas

Why reawaken the IRA?

Drunken confessions • When did alcoholics forget the bit about being anonymous?

FROM THE ARCHIVE • On political tribalism

ANCIENT AND MODERN • Trophies for everyone

Life after death • True crime too often ignores the fate of victims’ families

Those who warn of Brexit unrest invite it

LETTERS

Salute the rich who choose to pay their taxes

Eric the Red • Left orphaned and impoverished at 14, Eric Hobsbawm was ripe for conversion to communism, says Richard Davenport-Hines

Uncle Tom Wedgwood and all

More dystopian futures

The biggest story on the planet

Reinventing a nation

Old school ties can’t last forever

Daydreams in the outback

Heavies in a new light

One for Sorrow

The healing art

A pawn in a deadly game

A tall story from Thanet

Mr Thomas, Cwmdonkin Drive

Apocalypse Dau • Owen Matthews on the strangest, most unsettling piece of art to come out of Russia in years

Dream ticket

When things fall apart

Relative values

Today’s Specials • Michael Hann talks to Terry Hall and bass player Horace Panter about depression, punch-ups and falling out of love with the Labour party

All the lonely people

The odd couple

THE GAMER • Resident Evil 2

You’ve been scammed

Cairns

High life

Low life

Real life

The turf

Bridge

SPECTATOR WINE

A tale of two tournaments

Tweet beginnings

2393: Monster Mash-up

The problem with measuring progress

THE BATTLE FOR BRITAIN

The test of time

YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Brexit and cru bourgeois

MIND YOUR LANGUAGE • Jack