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Science & Tech
They come at a premium
By Ross Anderson
Spectator Editorial
These encampments are remarkable not by their tactics but by what’s being said
By Spectator Editorial
Politics
The activist far left are masters at appearing innocent to people who give them passing attention
By Julio Rosas
Campaign 2024
When it comes to the veep role, there’s little doubt that Trump is looking for loyalty
By Freddy Gray
Law
Stormy has her book to sell and Cohen now makes a living publicly lambasting the man he once said he’d take a bullet for. But despite all the caveats, most legal analysts think things are looking bad for Trump, who is of course running for president again on the Republican ticket
By Paul Wood
Policy
Philly’s Democratic mayor is putting anti-crime measures at the top of her agenda
By Richard Koenig
Those countries that remain loyal are lavishly rewarded
By Cindy Yu
The institutions have become too lax in punishing rule-breaking
By Yascha Mounk
The remnants of Christianity are keeping civilization from the abyss
By Jane Stannus
…and what to do about it. When he talks, the left listens
By Kate Andrews
Place
A John Cage recital that is set to last 639 years recently witnessed a chord change — 500 people made a pilgrimage to experience it
By Yoel Noorali
All will be revealed soon enough at the Cannes Film Festival
By Alexander Larman
What would C.J. Sansom have made of this adaptation of his novel series?
By James Delingpole
Television
The show is perhaps the most overtly liberal mainstream entertainment in the English-speaking world
Art
The storied auction house is making a major change to its fee structure. What will it mean for the art world’s future?
By William Newton
Book Review
There isn’t much in The English Soul that you could not get from Wikipedia
By A.N. Wilson
His atheist vision of reality rests on assumptions challenged by Jesus
By Rupert Shortt
Christopher Harding is more tolerant than I am
By Ian Buruma
New York is great in summer, but the art scene can sometimes be fleeting
By Calla Di Pietro
The greatest American novelist you’ve never heard of
By Oliver Soden
A spa hotel: key to surviving a ski festival in your thirties
By Amy Rose Everett
Style
Most of the fashion was yawn fuel
If you like barren wilderness, this is the place for you
By Ross Clark
The city’s established and rising culinary stars are making a special kind of magic
Black cotton is a special kind of soil you find in Africa, which when it’s dry looks like the cracked, dark-gray hide of a rhino
By Aidan Hartley
Education
Frescoes are always the lead story in reports of the latest finds, but they are only a part of a much bigger picture
By Peter Jones
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