The Spectator

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A return to normality

CONTRIBUTORS

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

Brexit belongs to the Tories

THE SPECTATOR’S NOTES

The end of the party • The era of easy money is over – and it’s no bad thing

The Last Walker

Sometimes men deserve to be paid more

Living in fear • Violent crime in Sweden is soaring. When will politicians act?

TEXAS NOTEBOOK

There’s no housing shortage. It would be easier if there were

The emptiness of ‘issues’

A very minor prophet • Jordan Peterson may speak to millions – but not to me

17 reasons to love Brexit • Imagine all we can do once we’ve left

Extreme pain, of the purest intensity, changes everything

BAROMETER

Add dwarf to cart • Is it ever OK to hire a ‘little person’?

LETTERS

Falling US shares tell us only that investors were overexcited in January

BOOKS & ARTS

Women on the warpath • Jane Ridley describes how campaigners for female suffrage in Britain tried every tactic in vain. It took a world war to secure even a limited number of women the vote

Wise old birds

Time to lighten up

Now it can be told

In the Butterfly House

Three concepts of freedom

The Saki of sex

A stranger to oneself

How awfully considerate of Mrs Placid to go off and get herself massacred

Raiders of the lost lands

The bread of life

Wonder of Wenders

Death at close quarters

Sea fever • You won’t catch her on a cruise, but an exhibition at the V&A makes Daisy Dunn wistful for the golden age of travel

Home is where the art is

Girls on film

Accentuate the negative

Changing the bard

From Russia with no love

State of independence

Justin Timberlake: Man of the Woods

Abbaye Saint-Michel

High life

Low life

Real life

Wild life

Bridge

Chess on the Rock

Occasional verse

2345: Counterclaim

These days, fat is a high-tech issue

The BAttle FOR BRItain

This Six Nations could be anyone’s

YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Tel Aviv it ain’t

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