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The Spectator, 30 May 2026

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The Spectator is a weekly British political and cultural news magazine.

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ArticleDemand bet­ter

he first men­tion of West­min­ster came in a charter of 785, attrib­uted to King Offa, grant­ing land in ‘that ter­rible place’. The doc­u­ment was a for­gery though, drawn up by 12th-cen­tury monks to make West­min­ster Abbey seem a site of holy...

Demand bet­ter

ArticleDeus vs Mach­ina

The Pope’s AI inter­ven­tion shames our politi­cians Michael Gove

Deus vs Mach­ina

ArticleWarn­ing shot

Weight-loss drugs have reduced my appet­ite for life Damian Thompson

Warn­ing shot

ArticleInac­tion plan

Are we desert­ing Ukraine at pre­cisely the wrong moment? Owen Mat­thews

Inac­tion plan

ArticleEmily Rhodes

‘Orwell’s Allot­ment’: a poem

Emily Rhodes

ArticleLast words

Remem­ber­ing my glor­i­ously unfiltered father James Del­ing­pole

Last words

ArticleThule errand

Scot­tish nation­al­ism only goes so far Wil­liam Atkin­son

Thule errand

ArticleAny other busi­ness

Beacon or bonkers, it’s all aboard the SpaceX rocket Mar­tin Vander Weyer

Any other busi­ness