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DIARY

Plugged in • How the West is empowering China’s war machine

Winter Wedding

Bottom dollar • The US currency is under attack like never before

All roads lead to Rome

Palmed off • Island life is not all it appears to be

Sinking ship • Why aircraft carriers have had their day

Ignore the propaganda war

Conflict of interest • Do the Democrats want to stop the Iran war?

Digging a hole • When it comes to mining, China holds all the cards

It Still Goes On

The arrogance of the tech-skeptics

Pep talk • The use of peptides is growing rapidly — but are they safe?

Free radical • Orson Fry meets the prolific Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård

Still Rolling • But, Christopher Sandford asks, will the Stones ever play live again?

New York life

Havana life

DC life

Rich pickings • The joy of spring greens

In vino veritas

Back in the saddle • The trials and tribulations of cowboy college

California dreamin’ • Steve Hilton on his quest to become state governor

‘We’re into 1973 territory now’

THE SPECTATOR'S NOTE

Zacked off • The Greens are now more about Gaza than the environment

The real reason the left hates Israel

Gulf fates • The winners and losers of Trump’s war in the Middle East

Can go-go boys smash fascism?

Decorum restored • Leo XIV is not easy to read — but the signs are promising

ANCIENT AND MODERN • Siege mentality

Charge sheet • Owning an EV requires a lot of patience

The one who got away • Ian Buruma on the courteous, quiet Nazi who successfully manipulated his interrogators at Nuremberg

Terrible twosomes

March

Memories, grief and exile

Poetry in motion • Alex Diggins on the first major exhibition dedicated to artworks inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Touching the void

Comfort and joy

Male order

Sash

Best life

Real life

The new class struggle

MICHAEL HEATH

Beware those who live by ‘serious’ decisions

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Potatoes

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