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Beep-bop. The sound of the supermarket checkout – a noise Morrisons felt the need to mute after the Queen’s death…
‘I don’t think I’ve gone too far’
Suella Braverman on how her party can recover
What crisis?
A tough week for Trussonomics
Tabletop games
Warhammer is a tabletop battle game. Players build and paint little models of aliens, tanks and killer robots and then…
The prince of paradox
Is it fascist or anti-fascist to quote G.K. Chesterton, or neither?
Border lines
There’s a growing sense that tomorrow belongs to Sinn Fein
Killer in our midst
Red kites should never have been reintroduced to Britain
Marching order
Why has Oxford killed off a much-loved Catholic college?
Author’s Notebook
I began the week in Miami, looking forward to what a friend of mine describes as ‘the finest sight in…
‘We’re so close’
Cautious optimism at the Labour party conference
The cornered rat
Will Putin push the button to save himself?
‘This war is a catastrophe’
Meet Russia’s new opposition
Composer’s Notebook
There were two world premieres during the Queen’s funeral on Monday. One was a beautiful setting of some verses from…
‘Keir’s not Superman, he can’t do it all by himself’
Is Wes Streeting Labour’s next leader?
Benched
The sad demise of the church pew
Truss’s gamble
The Energy Price Guarantee may cost much less than is feared
The bulldog of Brazil
What tricks will Bolsonaro play to win a second term?
Fountain pens
Our new King isn’t the only royal to have lost his rag over a leaky pen, as happened when he…
More mad than Vlad
Putin’s most dangerous opposition comes from Russia’s ultra-nationalists
King of hearts
Charles III will reign in an age where feeling trumps duty
Royal handbags
In this period of national mourning, it may seem frivolous to comment on the late Queen’s handbag. After seven decades…
From the archive
How The Spectator reported the Queen’s life
Pet projects
Her Majesty’s love of dogs and horses
Common ground
The Queen’s devotion to the Commonwealth
Fine tuning
Memories of a Queen’s piper
