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Emperor of Inertia

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CONTRIBUTORS

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

Reeves’s fiscal play-off

The Ultras • Meet Britain’s new Islamo-socialist alliance

Are we nearly there?

Useful idiots • The westerners helping Hamas win the propaganda war

George’s marvellous medicine

Head of policy • Who’s the real driving force shaping Reform?

BAROMETER

Imagine what Enoch Powell might have said

‘Trump as a friend isn’t easy’ • An interview with Piers Morgan

Nightie night • The return of old-fashioned sleepwear

ANCIENT AND MODERN • How to succeed, Roman-style

The lost art of the insult

Game over • Prince Andrew’s solo pleasure

LETTER FROM BERLIN

The Wasps are dying out

Best of friends • The wonderfully mischievous Lady Annabel Goldsmith

LETTERS

Trade secrets: the other Chinese spy case

Seeing and believing • Are Vermeer’s most celebrated paintings really disguised religious icons? Philip Hensher is unconvinced

Boom and bust

The making of a mass murderer

Toys for boys

Georgia on my mind

Restless charmer

Nicolette Jones

Baku and beyond

The family you choose

Victory arch • Tim Abrahams on the triumph of classical architecture

Frieze over

Art attack

Strokes of genius

Great Britten

Cinema Boss-eyed

Method Worzel Gummidge

A whole new ball game

Worms Across Worlds

Ready meals

Best life

Real life

The turf

Bridge

SPECTATOR WINE

European Teams

Timeshift

2726 : Two against one

The madness of ‘non-crime’

MICHAEL HEATH

A star is born – and then another one

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Thai me up

Potash