Inside Diane Abbott’s war with Labour
The MP’s memoir A Woman Like Me reveals a remarkable life spent fighting prejudice – and her own party.
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WH Auden’s visions of England
The poet as a young man became the “mouthpiece of an epoch” by connecting his private world with the public…
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David Peace’s footballing saints
The novelist laureate of English football succumbs to hero-worship in his reimagining of the Busby Babes’ tragic demise.
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The Tony Blair advice bureau
On Leadership is wise on the business of government but credulous on Elon Musk and corporate power.
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Who are Britain’s new aristocrats?
An elite by inheritance still holds sway but it has been joined by an elite of grafters.
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Janet Frame’s asylum dreams
The New Zealand author, born 100 years ago, was both tormented and inspired by her experience of mental illness.
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Long live the low life
Jeremy Clarke’s final Spectator columns, written after his cancer diagnosis, are witty, well balanced and devoid of self-pity.
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How to be human in an age of AI
New technologies cannot replace the pleasure and self-expression of living.
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