Meat head-on, p47
Truss issues, p28
Swede dreams, p32
THE WEEK
3 Leading article 6 Portrait of the Week 9 Diary Who has the worst
voice in parliament? Quentin Letts 10 Politics Labour’s green bind
Katy Balls 11 The Spectator’s Notes Cyclists are
the Jeremy Corbyns of the road Charles Moore 15 Rod Liddle Bring back the
Double Mushroom Swiss 19 Douglas Murray The message
Columbia’s students need to hear 20 Barometer Helicopter safety,
tourism woes and the ICC 21 Lionel Shriver The demographics
that may shape Europe 22 Ancient and modern
Virgin territory 25 Matthew Parris Are ultra-
processed foods really so bad? 26 Letters Dead cats, exorbitant
tipping and C of E shortcomings 27 Any other business The burden of
wealth and the power of greed Martin Vander Weyer
12 Electric shock
The great EV bust Ross Clark 13 Rebecca Watts
‘At Home with Emily Brontë’: a poem 14 Art and war
Why Russia’s advance won’t drive out Kharkiv’s defiant residents Maria Avdeeva 16 Crude reality
The shadow fleet helping Russia to evade oil sanctions Owen Matthews 18 Philosopher’s notebook
I fear for Mikheil Saakashvili, imprisoned in Georgia Bernard-Henri Lévy 20 No help
Why is the government making it harder to get an au pair? Philip Womack 22 The boomerang gang
Migrants to South Africa get deported but inevitably return Geoff Hill 24 Bow out
How to quit like the Japanese Philip Patrick
BOOKS & ARTS
BOOKS 28 Philip Hensher
Bloody Panico!, by Geoffrey Wheatcroft 30 Clive Aslet
The Battle for Better Design, by Roger Bargery Anne Margaret Daniel All the Rage, by Virginia Nicholson 32 Ursula Buchan
The Garden Against Time, by Olivia Laing Christopher Bray My My!, by Giles Smith 33 Diana Hendry
Enlightenment, by Sarah Perry 34 Matthew Lynn
The Road to Freedom, by Joseph Stiglitz; The Invisible Doctrine, by George Monbiot and Peter Hutchinson; Vulture Capitalism, by Grace Blakeley 35 Anne de Courcy
Precious, by Helen Molesworth Anna Aslanyan How to Make a Bomb, by Rupert Thomson 36 Chloë Ashby
Get the Picture, by Bianca Bosker
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