Introducing Spectator Life

Your Spectator will be a bit heavier this week. Free with every issue is a free copy of Spectator Life, our new quarterly magazine, full to overflowing with the kind of features you might not find in the main Spectator.

Peter Hoskin, late of this parish, writes the cover story: an interview with the film star (and Shakespearean actress) Rebecca Hall. Ed Smith, a former England cricketer, profiles Roger Federer, and the photographer Mario Testino tells us what he owes to Peru. We explain why Cartier dropped its sponsorship of International Polo because the event was being taken over by a clientele more interested in the after-hours party. We ask Tom Hollander, actor and Spectator diarist, to nominate his next big thing: he picks a flame-haired singer songwriter (and 80s cover artist) Hannah Peel. The magazine itself looks spectacular: we don’t tend you use photographs very much in the Spectator but we had some fun with this issue, using thicker paper, perfect binding and trying a different format.