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Spectator Life

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

Three bets for Ayr tomorrow

From Spectator Life

Tomorrow’s Coral Scottish Grand National (3.35 p.m.) has attracted a field of 23 runners with a pot of more than £112,000 to the connections of the winner. Irish trainer Willie Mullins, fresh from his stunning achievements at Aintree last weekend, has six runners in the race as he tries to become champion trainer in Britain

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Theo Hobson

University should be absurd

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Magazine

This week's magazine

Trump shock

Is there method behind the madness?

Freddy Gray

Trump shock: is there method behind the madness?

A ‘black swan event’, as defined by the risk analyst Nassim Nicholas Taleb in 2007, is a surprise occurrence that has a major impact on the global financial system and is rationalised after the fact as something that ought to have been expected all along. The 9/11 terror attacks are one example, the Covid pandemic

Trump shock: is there method behind the madness?

A ‘black swan event’, as defined by the risk analyst Nassim Nicholas Taleb in 2007, is a surprise occurrence that has a major impact on the global financial system and is rationalised after the fact as something that ought to have been expected all along. The 9/11 terror attacks are one example, the Covid pandemic

Culture

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

Sunny Schubert and iridescent Ravel: album of the week

From the magazine

Grade: A Maurice Ravel was tougher than he looked. True, he dressed like a dandy and wrote an opera about a dancing teapot. But when he was rejected for military service in the first world war (he was 39 and 5ft) he practically forced his way to the front line as a lorry driver –

Podcasts

Cartoons

Wilbur

‘‘I think I’ll just get a dog.’’

Cartoon

Nick Newman

‘‘What’s harder to swallow – tariffs or chlorinated chicken?’’

Cartoon

Grizelda

‘‘We’d like to visit America when it’s great again.’’

Cartoon