Same difference, p12
Garden envy, p22
THE WEEK
3 Leading article 6 Portrait of the Week 9 Diary Why won’t Rishi honour
our £1,000 charity bet? Piers Morgan 11 The Spectator’s Notes
What Michael Gove did next Charles Moore 15 Rod Liddle
Vote for me! 17 Barometer Migrant boats, halfway
points and compulsory conscription 19 Douglas Murray
The right must unite 22 Ancient and modern
Election break 23 Mary Wakefield My friend
Alice and her ‘bad carer’ days 27 Letters Tory travails, drinking
limits and old dogs 28 Any other business
Labour’s high-tax instinct will swiftly come to the fore Martin Vander Weyer
Unbridled passion, p16
BOOKS & ARTS
12 Wannabes
The posturing of the party leaders Katy Balls 13 Koef Nielsen
‘I.M. Wilko Johnson 1947-2022’: a poem 14 Spinfluencers
Can the Tories get TikTok on side? Angus Colwell 16 Into the breeches
A history of guardsmen and homosexuality Peter Parker 18 Putin’s purge
The Russian President has lost patience with his top generals Owen Matthews 21 Tipping the scales
Could Ozempic bankrupt the NHS? Max Pemberton 22 Growing pains
The Tories must learn the lessons of Canada’s Conservatives Wayne Hunt BOOKS 30 Nicholas Lezard on Franz Kafka 32 Rodric Braithwaite To Run the World, by Sergey Radchenko Leyla Sanai Tiananmen Square, by Lai Wen 34 Elizabeth Goldring From Tudor to Stuart, by Susan Doran Leaf Arbuthnot One Ukrainian Summer, by Viv Groskop 35 Simon Ings The Afterlife of Data, by Carl Öhman 36 Madeleine Feeny All That Glitters, by Orlando Whitfield Mathew Lyons The Missing Thread, by Daisy Dunn 37 Suzi Feay The Ministry of Time, by Kaliane Bradley 38 Max Décharné Dirty Real, by Peter Stanfield
Hell is a rented garden Lucy Denyer 24 All Chang’e
China’s fight for the moon David Whitehouse 26 Reformation
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