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Labour’s inheritance

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CONTRIBUTORS

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

Where does the opposition go?

THE SPECTATOR’S NOTES

Simply red • Andy Burnham’s centrist act isn’t fooling anyone

Ex-Boxer

Advance notice • An unwanted lunge should not get to court

BAROMETER

The Wild West of political speculation

Left hanging • Radical socialists are taking over the Democratic party

Fifteen Years and Counting

Save the date • Why are people being randomly banned from Hinge?

Pipe dreams • The lost art of contemplative smoking

The PM should put on a tie

Pit perfect • Don’t fall for the deodorant con

Kemi needs her centrists

Murky waters • What Ukraine doesn’t want you to know about the Nord Stream pipeline

LETTERS

Seed capital • Iona Bain on the smartest ways to invest for children

Trade secrets • Can bartering save your business, asks Tali Fraser

Lucky dip • Michael Simmons on why stock markets are still so buoyant

Lean years • Sam McPhail on how fat jabs could wreck pensions

Volkswagen’s fightback: why China’s triumph isn’t inevitable

BOOKS & ARTS

Small and deadly • Biological warfare is no longer the stuff of science fiction but an all-too-grim reality, says James Phillips

The power of persuasion

A rebel at heart

Tokyo drift

Along came a spider

Lindsay Johns

On the rocks

Dadd dancing • Hermione Eyre on the Victorian Hieronymus Bosch

Theatre Fringe benefits

Conversations à Trois

Phantom thread

Plodding

Television Ladies first

Independents’ day

Oscar winning

Party bores

Best life

Real life

Dolce Vita

The Turf

Discovered attacks

Feverish

2762: Keys of the Kingdom

Muffuletta

Good health!

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

The dangers of policing misinformation

The Battle for Britain

Legends and sore losers

Hysteria theories

Staggeringly confused

Old boys’ club