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PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

Computer wizardry • Big Tech is under the spell of the occult

Hex appeal • The rise of middle-class witches

Satanic verses • How Roman Catholic black metal was born

Unreality television

Kemi time • Inside the fight to bolster the Tory party’s fortunes

Blueprint for disaster

Artist in residence • Michael Heath looks back on 75 years as a Spectator cartoonist

Nightwatchman

The real Blackshirts

I’ve been enslaved by my Apple watch

Landlords need protecting too

How have housebuilders fallen from hero to zero?

BOOKS OF THE YEAR I • Our regular reviewers choose the books they have most enjoyed reading in 2025

A passion for life

More fairy gold

In and out of fashion

The old songs are the best

After the Fall

Who’s afraid of the lone she-wolf?

Roads not taken

Old Boys’ Reunion

Bad vibrations

Celebrity terrorists

Reading between the lines

Brave little Belgium

Wines for all occasions

Last words • There is little sadder than the death of a language, says Sam Kriss

Bear necessities

Game of two halves

Wacky races

Film for fried brains

Wake-up call

Before Lamb there was Zoë

A musical life unfolds

A perfect period piece

The necessity of love

Still life

Real life

Wild life

Aussie life

Language

Remembering Naroditsky

Bad advice

2727: On track

The myth of writer’s block

The Battle for Britain

And the ‘Japanese toilet’ award goes to…

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Cold comfort

Survivor

Our Prime Chameleon goes to Washington • And poses as a petty bourgeois rather than an heroic Che Guevara

The Net Zero Line

Tasteless to a Tee

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CONTRIBUTORS

You’re not the boss of me! • Too right

Burying our prosperity • Red and green tape: our most effective weapons against critical minerals

Dominions falling like dominoes • Weak woke leadership has been a disaster

US Supreme Court holds the fort for us all • Protect the republic so the people get to choose

Did he who made the Lamb make thee? • The creeping return of antisemitism in a polite Australia

The Lucky Laggard • Australia and the wars that choose us

Abbott’s Australia • Does it really exist?

Coalition Hallowe’en • Trick or treat on Net Zero Street

Abbott delves into Down Under