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Undone by hubris

The Spectator

CONTRIBUTORS

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

The plot against Polanski

THE SPECTATOR’S NOTES

Butterfly effect • Ten years on, the benefits of Brexit are obvious

Daylight

Great barrier grief • I’ve fallen foul of the Fake Fuzz

Will the Iran deal destroy J.D. Vance?

‘As soon as Andy wins, the world changes’ • The Makerfield by-election is just the beginning

A Belfast Stroll

BAROMETER

The left will regret embracing political violence

Gone to seed • Why has Brexit Britain been so slow to accept gene editing?

Hat tip • Take your cap off in church

The New York Times hates Britain

Panic button • America’s Anthropic blackout won’t make the world safer

Aussie rulers • The rise and rise of Australia’s Nigel Farage

LETTERS

Hindsight says Brexit was a huge opportunity shamefully mishandled

Coup de foudre • Ariane Bankes on one of the great love affairs of the 20th century

The dark side of Dakar

Are we alone?

No childhood idyll

Short-cuts

Life lines

The banality of Grandma’s evil

Flights of fancy

In the cooler

Out of the closet • Peter Parker on how queer art went mainstream

Beisembayev’s Mozart

Bunker mentality

After a fashion

What a carve-up

Extinction rebellion

Speaking in tongues

Divine comedy

Tribute bands

No life

Dog’s life

Still life

Take it or leave it

Four play

2757: Obit VIII

Please pudding

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

SPECTATOR WINE

Whoops, I’ve given my children a gambling problem

The Battle for Britain

We need more men like Peter Murrell

Learning vs sunbathing

Young women need saving too

Thuggery