The Spectator

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The Spectator

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PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

THE SPECTATOR’S NOTES

Chinese whispers • The scandal of Beijing’s spying laid bare

On Tor y Foel

Glass ceiling • The future of British craftsmanship is dangerously fragile

Just think

The ECHR will never be reformed

The pathology of politics

Fire alarm • Labour’s class war on moorland

Heir apparently • Can anybody stop J.D. Vance becoming the next president?

LETTER FROM UKRAINE

Fare play • The parents gaming special educational needs

Enfants pas terribles • The French raise their children better

BAROMETER

Legal immigration is a nightmare

Go Westlake • The Tories’ best weapon

LETTERS

Bedtime reading for the Chancellor: scary data from the UK job market

As noir as can be • Thomas Pynchon’s latest novel is funny, absorbing, populated by wild characters – and heartfelt, writes Scott Bradfield

In love with illusion

Diminishing returns

A veneration of girlhood

Domestic comedy

All that was bravest and best

The end is nigh – or not

Double act

Tour de force

Top gear • Margaret Mitchell on the dying art of costume design

Comfort and joy

The write stuff

British baroque

Vocal hero

Body and soul

Mother inferior

Angry birds

Skip-diving

No life

Real life

Bridge

Sachertorte

SPECTATOR WINE

A meeting in St Louis

Right to reply

2725: Tandemonium?

I feel sorry for the eco-zealots

The Battle for Britain

Why men are the disposable sex

YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

A sip of Israeli history

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