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Lionel Shriver on the election that smashed identity politics

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Spectator Life

An intelligent mix of culture, food, style and property, plus where to go and what to see.

Welcome to the buffet of broken dreams

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We can thank Herbert ‘Herb’ Cobb McDonald for the modern-day all-you-can-eat buffet. Herb first introduced Las Vegas – and later the world – to this gastronomical abomination in 1946. The Buckaroo Buffet cost one dollar and promised ‘every possible variety of hot and cold entrees to appease the howling coyote in your innards’. The coyote

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Robin Ashenden

The curse of cool

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King of the Hill

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The good, the bad and the ugly in books, exhibitions, cinema, TV, dance, music, podcasts and theatre.

An audacious and daredevil band: the Surfrajettes reviewed

For most people – once Brian Wilson had turned his back on the sea and started off down the lonely road to genius – surf music means either (or both) of two things: the Surfaris’ ‘Wipeout’ or Dick Dale’s ‘Misirlou’. Punchy, propulsive tunes, in other words, that make you feel like you’re on your way

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Cartoons

Matt Percival

‘‘There are just times when you have to hope for the best.’’

Cartoon

Grizelda

‘‘I’m the first stale, pale and male man to head up an EDI department!’ ’

Cartoon

Paula Gahan

The new divide between first class and economy

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