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🗞 After Putin: how nervous should we be, asks Mark Galeotti

✍️ In the mag:

• Katy Balls: can Sunak revive the Tories with a reshuffle?
• Nicholas Farrell: the march of Europe’s right-wing women
• Ben Lazarus: inside the real phone-hacking scandal

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🗞 Home truths: the crushing reality of the mortgage crisis
 
✍️ In the mag:
 
• Katy Balls on Labour’s plan to take Scotland 
• Imran Khan on the conspiracy against him 
• Matt Ridley on Covid’s first victims  
 
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🗞 Get Rishi! Katy Balls on Boris’s plot against Rishi

✍️ In the mag:

• Owen Matthews: Putin is losing control
• Sharron Davies: women’s sport is not a colony for mediocre men
• Damian Thompson: the search for the next pope is turning ugly

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🗞 Harry’s crusade: Freddy Gray on the Prince vs the press

✍️ In mag:

• Katy Balls on why Rishi Sunak fears the Covid inquiry
• Alex Lucie-Smith on how women became essential to the mafia’s survival
• Rod Liddle on the delusion of JK Rowling

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🗞 Red Rishi: Kate Andrews and Matthew Parris on a political makeover

✍️ In the mag:

• Jean Twenge on why teenagers are so unhappy
• Douglas Murray on the Phillip Schofield affair
• James Heale on who really did for Liz Truss

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🗞 Coronation special 

✍️ In mag:

• Gyles Brandreth: the comedy of the Queen's coronation
• David Starkey: ‘I have uncancelled myself’
• Rod Liddle: what King Charles gets wrong
• Geoffrey Hinton: we need to wake up to the dangers of AI

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🗞 The Starmtroopers: Katy Balls on Labour’s new recruits

✍️ In mag:

• Freddy Gray asks if Trump is America's Le Pen
• Sarah Vine on why we shouldn’t cancel Diane Abbott
• Damian Thompson on how American Satanism is on the rise

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🗞 Womb service: the politics of surrogacy

✍️ In the mag:

• Katy Balls and Rod Liddle on CSI: SNP
• Suella Braverman on racism
• Simon Stevens on how to stop the doctors’ strikes

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🗞 The end of meritocracy: how virtue trumped ability

✍️ In mag:

• Kate Andrews on what junior doctors really earn
• James Heale on how the Sunak attack ads reveal the split in Labour
• Paul Wood on the dangerous shadow war between Iran and Israel

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🗞 Unholy mess: Pope Francis and Justin Welby have presided over a decade of disaster

✍️ In the mag:

• Rishi Sunak on the greatness of Nigel Lawson
• Matthew Parris on his messiah complex
• Rod Liddle on the fall of the Sainted Women Leaders

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🗞 Macron’s last adventure: the president vs the public

✍️ In this week’s magazine:

• Alex Salmond gives his advice to the new First Minister
• David Kezerashvili: ‘Georgia needs help from the West’
• Posie Parker on her clash with the mob

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🗞 The ghost children: how the pandemic created a lost generation

✍️ In mag:

• Sasha Hinkley on the James Webb space telescope and the search for alien life
• Kara Kennedy on how she dodged a killer
• Ian Williams on China’s answer to ChatGPT

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🗞 Crash test: Kate Andrews and Julian Jessop on the new era of economic uncertainty

✍️ In mag:

• Eyck Freymann on what Britain should do for Taiwan
• Katy Balls on Rishi’s hard-truth Budget
• Gus Carter on how sexual politics is damaging young men

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🗞 Is Putin winning? Peter Frankopan on how the world order is changing in his favour

✍️ In mag:

• Richard Dawkins on the anti-science witch-hunt
• Nick Farrell on how Giorgia Meloni is remaking Europe
• Max Jeffrey on the lucrative business of war

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🗞 Farewell to arms: Andrew Roberts on the hollowing out of the British Army

✍️ In mag:

• Andrew Drury on being played by Shamima Begum
• Isabel Hardman on the secular inquisition
• Julie Burchill welcomes the rise of the ‘throuple’

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🗞️ After Sturgeon: what’s the future for Scotland – and the Union?

 ✍️ In the mag:

• Douglas Murray: Prevent’s radical reading list
• Kate Andrews on the toxic cult of self-love
• Stephen Daisley on the plan to decolonise Aberdeen’s curriculum

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🗞 The haunting: Rishi Sunak can’t escape the ghosts of PMs past

✍️ In the mag:

• Lee Anderson on capital punishment: '100% effective!’
• Katy Balls reveals the unpublished Truss growth plan
• Julius Strauss on finding the dead in Ukraine

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NOW LIVE: Liz Truss: The Interview

Katy Balls and Fraser Nelson speak to the former prime minister. Watch The Spectator TV exclusive 👇

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🗞 One year on: how will the Ukraine war end? Owen Matthews and Svitlana Morenets

✍️ In the mag:

• Ross Clark on the real anti-growth coalition
• Nigel Biggar on the truth about colonialism
• Mary Wakefield on the mayhem of the Met

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🗞 Rolling in it: Katy Balls on the return of Tory sleaze

✍️ In mag:

• Freddy Gray on the top secret truth about Joe Biden
• Isabel Hardman interviews Keir Starmer: ‘We haven’t won - yet’
• Mark Galeotti asks: is Europe ready for war?

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