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Passage to India
Can Biden’s America contain China?
The new great game
An international power tussle over vaccines is under way
The need for speed
Can we outpace Covid?
A Christian vision
The Church of England is changing – for the better
St Bartholomew the Great
There is only one place in the world that has played host to both the Virgin Mary and Benjamin Franklin,…
Author’s Notebook
In the middle of December, for reasons I’m coming to, I woke early in a posh hotel. I lay semi-dozing…
Keep the change
Covid is fuelling the anti-cash crusade
Advance warning
Too much weight is put on the idea of ‘progress’
Women’s movement
Where have all the lesbians gone?
Pipe dreams
Russia’s influence on Germany is causing alarm
Across the board
How chess got cool
Jabs and jab-nots
Where will vaccine passports lead?
Holy relic
The Church of England as we know it is disappearing
Taking stock
Inside the online army waging war on Wall Street
Calling the shots
How the Vaccine Taskforce did it
Stresses and strains
The evolution of the virus is not random
All that is sacred
The church authorities’ priorities are all wrong
Hotel rooms
A few Spectator readers may soon find themselves confined to quarantine hotels, so the magazine thought it timely to find…
Coup de grâce
The downfall of Aung San Suu Kyi
Smokescreen
The Fire Brigades Union’s pandemic response has been a disgrace
Chill out
Why I’ve warmed to cold showers
Doc Martens
Doc Martens are one of those quintessentially British things that, like the royal family and lorries queuing on the M20,…
Pilgrim’s Notebook
A few of the hip young things sitting along the Lisbon quayside turned their heads my way as my walking…
Capital punishment
Why wealth taxes don’t work
Lessons learned
Anne Longfield, the Children’s Commissioner, on why schools must reopen
