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Spectator Life

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

The simple elegance of fondant potatoes

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In 1999, a relatively unknown American chef wrote an essay in the New Yorker uncovering the secrets of restaurants. ‘Don’t Eat Before Reading This’ lifted the lid on both the underworld of professional kitchens and the mentality of chefs. In it, the writer meticulously took down ordering fish on a Monday (old), eating steak well

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Harry Mount

The Odyssey is more real than we thought

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Magazine

This week's magazine

Easter special

Rowan Williams, Wes Streeting, Nicky Haslam, Lynn Barber, Julie Burchill and more...

The assisted suicide bill should not survive

Until about six months ago, it would have been hard to find a more inoffensive politician than the Labour backbencher Kim Leadbeater. A well-liked, upbeat, down-to-earth Yorkshirewoman, she entered politics because of a personal tragedy, the murder of her sister, the MP Jo Cox, in 2016. When asked on a Spectator podcast what was the

The assisted suicide bill should not survive

Until about six months ago, it would have been hard to find a more inoffensive politician than the Labour backbencher Kim Leadbeater. A well-liked, upbeat, down-to-earth Yorkshirewoman, she entered politics because of a personal tragedy, the murder of her sister, the MP Jo Cox, in 2016. When asked on a Spectator podcast what was the

Culture

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The making of Van Gogh as an artist came at a terrible cost

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Six months before Vincent van Gogh’s death, the critic Albert Aurier, waxing poetical, wrote an article entitled Les Isolés on the then unknown painter. It raised to sainthood the solitary genius driven to insanity by an uncomprehending world. ‘Is he not one of the noble and immortal race which the common people call madmen but

Podcasts

Cartoons

Wilbur

‘‘I’ve been too generous for too long.’’

Cartoon

Matt Percival

‘‘We understand that youcan keep the furnaces going.’’

Cartoon

Nick Newman

‘‘No sugar – it’s safer to eat the plastic toy!’’

Cartoon

Antonia Hoyle

Could Ozempic cure your phone addiction?

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