The Spectator

The Spectator is Britain’s oldest and most influential magazine, with incisive political and economic analysis, unrivalled books and arts reviews, and unmissable lifestyle writing, plus the funniest cartoons. It’s more cocktail party than political party, and we’d love it if you joined us.

Desperate retreat

The Spectator

CONTRIBUTORS

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

Diary

Farage à la carte

THE SPECTATOR’S NOTES

Red alert • Who will decide Labour’s fate?

B Roads

BAROMETER

The unstoppable rise of stupidity

Power trip • Will Trump and Xi give each other what they want?

Ship shape

Things can always get worse

Golf war • How the Saudis wriggled through the Iran conflict

‘Stop the boats,’ says the Fairy Queen

A complicated legacy • It’s time to uncancel Enoch Powell

The glorious counter-culture of Two Fat Ladies

Petal power • The British flower-growers fighting back against scent-free imports

LETTERS

Private equity’s half-century: good or bad for the world?

Wicked old Winston • The idea of Churchill as a national hero would have been inconceivable at the beginning of the second world war, says Nicholas Shakespeare

A moral maze

The lady vanishes

Shaggy dog stories

The power of spectacle

Mourning sickness

Lying for the greater good

Sins of the father

Going for gold

Joyride in a paintbox • Hermione Eyre on how Winston Churchill painted himself out of the darkness

Dual control • Peter Shaffer should be up there with the greats. Alexander Cohen makes the case

Troubled waters

Slipstream of sound

Twin peaks

Trocks of ages

Life of Brian

Food for thought

Broken homes

Saints alive!

Fezzes

Best life

Real life

The turf

Iced fingers

Not a moment too soon

Shrink away

2752: Double trouble

First they came for Mandelson...

The Battle for Britain

Arsenal turn every corner into a scrum

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Solidarity on a plate

Wait list