The Spectator

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Moment of truth

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PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

The missing Mandelson messages

How Lowe can they go? • The battle between Restore and Reform

There is Within Us Eternal Spring

Coming clean • The agony of decluttering my late husband’s home

Kemi has given me hope

Poking the bear • Russia won’t give up Armenia without a fight

Neo con • Don’t blame neoliberalism for Britain’s woes

Fake believe • Trump and Putin have become victims of their own conspiracy theories

Cave men

When all racist murders are not equal

Snap shut • The real ‘Thucydides Trap’ Beijing and Washington must avoid

Leap of faith • Why I take frog poison

LETTER FROM HAVANA

Who fancies a pint in Reeves’s ideal pub?

LETTERS

Manifold’s sharp exit from BP is a symptom of deeper trouble

BOOKS & ARTS

The full Monty • Allan Mallinson traces the career of the brave showman from national hero to national liability

Pathways to recovery

Under siege

A frisson of tension in the air

Pockets of sedition

The bedrock of opinion

I Robot?

Panic stations

Adventures in wonderland

An ill wind

Irish whimsy

Blackmail, gangsters and orgies

Jaded youth

Days

Reversals of fortune • Robin Simon on the art of resurrecting forgotten artists

Opera Going for gold

Theatre Living the high life

Here be monsters

Olden but golden

007: First Light

On the money

Tequila

No life

Real life

SPECTATOR WINE

Breathtaking chess

All kicking off

2755: Über cero

Nigel, me and Desert Island Discs

MICHAEL HEATH

Variety is the spice of evolutionary life

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Politicians and the hard stuff

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