The Spectator

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PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

‘We’re into 1973 territory now’

THE SPECTATOR’S NOTES

Zacked off • The Greens are now more about Gaza than the environment

Sash

Gulf fates • The winners and losers of Trump’s war in the Middle East

The real reason the left hates Israel

Who’s the baddie?

Non scents • Brussels is making your perfumes worse

À la cartel • Why are crime gangs going after food?

BAROMETER

We’ve already given up on novels

ANCIENT AND MODERN • Society for all

Czech mate • The clandestine side of Roger Scruton

California dreamin’ • Steve Hilton, former Tory director of strategy, on why he’s running to be state governor

LETTERS

Tax burden • Iona Bain on HMRC’s self-assessment shake-up

Child benefit • Arabella Byrne on the rise of the pocket money banking app

Frugal chic • Margaret Mitchell on the movement changing the way women shop

Extra credit • Maxwell Marlow on how to solve the student debt crisis

Never mind bashing ‘profiteers’, slash fuel taxes and green levies

The one who got away • Ian Buruma on the courteous, softly-spoken Nazi who successfully manipulated his interrogators at Nuremberg

Ancestral voices • Susie Mesure

Towering matriarchs • Kate Teltscher

What actually happened? • Stuart Jeffries

March

The mystery of our superpower • Sebastian Faulks

Terrible twosomes • David Honigmann

The journey from Harlem • Philip Clark

Troubled waters • Annie Walton Doyle

Memories, grief and exile • Leyla Sanai

Ovid enquiry • Alex Diggins on the first major exhibition dedicated to artworks inspired by the Roman poet’s Metamorphoses

Male order • Richard Bratby

Touching the void • Graeme Thomson

Homage to Chekhov • Lloyd Evans

Twin peaks • Deborah Ross

Trash talk • James Delingpole

Radio & podcasts The new cold war • Daisy Dunn

Exhibitions Comfort and joy • Hermione Eyre

Potatoes

Best life • Rachel Johnson

Real life • Melissa Kite

SPECTATOR WINE

Surprise winner • Luke McShane

Departing this life • Lucy Vickery

2745: Top left by Fieldfare

The new class struggle

The Battle for Britain

Engineers beat lawyers • Rory Sutherland

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Drink Of God and the German grape • Bruce Anderson

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