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Madness without method

The Spectator

CONTRIBUTORS

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

The Tory-fication of Reform

THE SPECTATOR’S NOTES

Benefits treats • Britain has become a freeloader’s paradise

BAROMETER

The age of chaos • No one knows what Trump will do next

Do you suffer from ‘excited delirium syndrome’?

Wild things • Let teenage boys discover the English countryside

Troubles ahead • Starmer must drop this terrible Northern Ireland bill

Hostage situations

The dubious rise of Tariq Ramadan

De Gaulle or nothing • Lessons from the General

Winter Wedding

Hungary for change • Is time up for Viktor Orban?

The conversion therapy we should really ban

Vale, Patum Peperium • Gentleman’s Relish is no more

LETTERS

Making Tax Difficult: another Whitehall farce

Campaniles in Wales • Stephen Bayley delights in the colourful flamboyance of Portmeirion

The forge of Vulcan

All shook up

Lessons in healing

Office gossip

Away with melancholy

A man with a mission

Sob Story

Surrealist sphinx

Blue-sky thinking

A war of words

Two roads diverge

Ways of seeing • There are still art historians and critics who refuse to countenance the fact that great artists used optical aids, says Robin Simon

Pite club

Sweet nothings

Opera Doing bird

The only way is excess

Hacked off

Kanye West: Bully

What the doctor ordered

Paradise lost

The dark side of the Moon

Best life

Real life

Wild life

SPECTATOR WINE

Candidates Tournament

Take heed

2747: Head of the herd

The noble work of chairlift diplomacy

MICHAEL HEATH

Fast talking

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Head for port

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