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Books / Is it up to pop stars to save the planet now?
From the magazineRadio & podcasts / Mandy Rice-Davies saw the Profumo affair as an adventure, not a scandal
From the magazineGrave concerns / Will councils soon be digging up the dead?
From Spectator LifeHorror of horrors / Make Halloween scary again
From Spectator LifeBlooming furious / The row over Chelsea’s AI garden
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Will councils soon be digging up the dead?
From Spectator LifeThe debauched posh are back
From Spectator LifeWhere are the small boat babes?
From Spectator LifeChe Guevara was a sadist
From Spectator LifeMake Halloween scary again
From Spectator LifeIt was the early evening of 31 October and I was three years old, sitting in the living room with Mum, on the brink of bedtime, when I turned to the corner and a decorative wicker armchair. (It was the 1980s.) ‘Mum,’ I enquired sweetly, ‘who’s that man sitting there?’ Mum, suitably unnerved, asked me
The row over Chelsea’s AI garden
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Decline and fall
How our greatest universities are betraying students
Decline and fall: how university education became infantilised
Last month, after 21 years studying and teaching Classics at the University of Cambridge, I resigned. I loved my job. And it’s precisely because I loved the job I was paid to do, and because I believe so firmly in preserving the excellence of higher education, in Britain and beyond, that I have left. When
Decline and fall: how university education became infantilised
Last month, after 21 years studying and teaching Classics at the University of Cambridge, I resigned. I loved my job. And it’s precisely because I loved the job I was paid to do, and because I believe so firmly in preserving the excellence of higher education, in Britain and beyond, that I have left. When
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You’ll even hate the cat: Disclaimer, on Apple TV+, reviewed
From the magazineSometimes spoilers can be your friend. For example, I have just cheated and looked up on the internet the shocking final plot twist in Disclaimer and now I have been relieved of a massive burden. No longer need I watch any more episodes of this weird, creepy, pretentious, contrived and prurient series just to see
Mandy Rice-Davies saw the Profumo affair as an adventure, not a scandal
From the magazineAt Japan House humanity has arrived at the perfect future: food for ogling, not eating
From the magazineGreat knits – shame about the film: Almodovar’s The Room Next Door reviewed
From the magazineChrissie Hynde remains outstanding: the Pretenders, at Usher Hall, reviewed
From the magazineSchoenberg owes his survival to crime drama
From the magazineRevenge tragedy for kids: The Duchess [of Malfi], at Trafalgar Theatre, reviewed
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‘‘He’s never open with me.’’
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‘‘This is our forever home, so his bedroom is big enough for a 35-year-old.’’
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