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Identity crisis

THE SPECTATOR

CONTRIBUTORS

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

A holiday from reality

THE SPECTATOR’S NOTES

‘I have a lot of self-belief’ • Kemi Badenoch is raring for a fight

Tail End Charlie

Lady killers • The Tories must free themselves from the cult of Thatcher

The Murray Test for TV drama

Heavy vetting • My time with the security services

BAROMETER

Meddle ground • Moldova has been saved from Russian influence, but at what cost?

There is no fad too crazy

Study skills

Extinction rebellion • Is it time to bring back the dodo?

Soft cell • The luxury of French prisons

LETTER FROM CAPE COD

Veni, vidi, vici • Learning to speak Latin and Ancient Greek can save civilisation

LETTERS

A scary parable of the cyber-crime pandemic

Debunking myths • Like most good historians, Graham Robb relishes the chance of correcting popular but erroneous beliefs, says Philip Hensher

Feathered torpedoes

In the wake of the Holocaust

Above the battered city

A guilty pleasure

The shape of things to come

All in a night’s work

Yellow and Blue (The Miner’s Vision)

The art of dining • Margaret Mitchell talks to Ivan Day, Britain’s premier food historian, about sugar sculptures, flying tables and kitchen desecration

Trivial pursuits

Johnny be good

State of the art

Natural born thriller

Partridge shoot

Portrait of a Lady

Swan eating

No life

Real life

Wild life

Bridge

Bacon and egg pie

SPECTATOR WINE

Emerging prodigy

What day is it?

2723: Not like us

We could use the ruthless pragmatism of Singapore

MICHAEL HEATH

Why it pays to be unpopular

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Cross-pollination

Diffuse