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The Spectator is a weekly British political and cultural news magazine.
Last year’s Conservative party conference was a difficult one. Reform UK was leading the polls; the local election results had been as painful as the general election the year before; and the story at conference was not Kemi Badenoch’s...
99-year-old impresario Lilian Hochhauser Rupert Christiansen It’s hard to know where to start – or finish – when explaining the formidable Lilian Hochhauser, due her centenary birthday card from the King next month. Over more than 75...
Whatever happened to the midlife crisis? Flora Watkins ‘You’re probably just having a midlife crisis,’ says Scarlett Johansson to Bill Murray in Lost in Translation (2003). ‘Did you buy a Porsche yet?’ Murray was 52 when he played the...
What Have You Done for Victory?, by Jo Labanyi What Have You Done for Victory? A Cultural History of the Spanish Civil War by Jo Labanyi Reaktion Books, £29, pp. 504 History, as the aphorism frequently attributed to Winston Churchill...
Britain’s new anti-Semitic alliance Tali Fraser Johann von Leers was one of Goebbels’s most industrious propagandists: 27 books in 12 years, among them Jews Are Looking at You and Jewry and Knavery. After the war he slipped away to Peron’s...