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Laud’s prayer

The Spectator

CONTRIBUTORS

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

The real war is to come

THE SPECTATOR’S NOTES

The British intifada • A country in the grip of hate

The Murmur

The South-West Bank • Palestinian nationalism has come to Cornwall

Robert Jenrick is right

Inside job • Restorative justice is under threat from within

Heart brake • My toxic affair with my Land Rover

BAROMETER

Live and let spy • The farce over the collapsed China espionage case

In defence of Chris Cash

Private rites • The Church of England’s muddle over sex and marriage

LETTER FROM AMERICA

Words and deeds

War games • On manoeuvres with the Bundeswehr

Unrivalled • Everyone loved Jilly Cooper – and no one more than me

The elimination of motherhood

LETTERS

How could the Co-op be so hostile to Jewish shoppers?

Saying the unsayable • Which beloved composer will Robin Holloway slaughter next, wonders Alexandra Coghlan

Rough justice

Perfidious rogue

In Looking Glass land

A step too far

Strength of feeling

What comes after Gaza?

A latter-day Lear

A question of attribution • How we teach art history today is woeful, says Richard Morris

Railway lines

Three out of four

Eat, sleep, perform, repeat • What does it feel like to do the same show 355 times in one year? M.G. Scott on an actor’s life

Wilde at heart

Relative values

Taylor made

On the house

The death of cinéma vérité

Martinu String Quartets: Pavel Haas Quartet

Personalised number plates

Dolce vita

Real life

The turf

Bridge

Down to the wire

Virtue-signalling

2724: Word building

All aboard the ship of hate

MICHAEL HEATH

Did fear of elitism stick its oar in?

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Many shades of grey

Greenlit