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The Spectator World, 28 Sep 2026

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The Spectator’s world edition, launched in 2018, is a magazine of ideas dedicated to great writing that covers politics, culture, arts and life. Published monthly in print and daily online, we’re dedicated to covering the most interesting stories and publishing the best commentary on what’s happening in the US and around the world.

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ArticleEdit­or­ial

Two recent stor­ies sum up the state of Don­ald Trump’s pres­id­ency and under­score the grow­ing gap between him and his work­ing-class sup­port base. First, it emerged that Don­ald Trump Jr. had his wed­ding paid for by Umar Kremlev, a Rus­sian...

Edit­or­ial

ArticleQuag­mire

In Iran, Amer­ica is being sucked deeper into a war it can­not win Tehran knows it does not need to defeat the United States in a con­ven­tional war. It can instead exploit the vul­ner­ab­il­it­ies of Amer­ica and its Sunni Gulf allies by open­ing up...

Quag­mire

ArticleStranger than fic­tion

B. Tra­ven had 27 ali­ases – will we ever know who he really was?

Stranger than fic­tion

ArticleStum­bling bloc

Why would Canada want to hitch itself to the EU? “Canada has what the world wants,” Mark Car­ney likes to tell people. But what does Canada want? The European Union, appar­ently. The bloc’s Pres­id­ent, Ursula von der Leyen, has announced that Canada...

Stum­bling bloc

ArticleLos­ing cause

Zelensky’s strategy in the Ukraine war is national sui­cide For Amer­ic­ans who fol­low the Rus­si­a­nUkrain­ian war, the past few months must look very strange. In the first half of sum­mer, the story from Kyiv – and the many west­ern media out­lets...

Los­ing cause

ArticleTurn­ing sauer

Why pickled cab­bage was a savior for sail­ors

Turn­ing sauer

ArticleMaine char­ac­ters

On the trail of lob­ster­men, moose and the ghosts of the Green­ville Inn

Maine char­ac­ters

ArticleThe Cas­sandra com­plex

Beware of bil­lion­aires tout­ing the apo­ca­lypse Cas­sandra was a prin­cess, daugh­ter of King Priam of Troy. Apollo gave her the power to see the future and, when she rejec­ted his advances, arranged that no one would ever believe her. She warned...

The Cas­sandra com­plex

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