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Decline and fall

The Spectator World

CONTRIBUTORS

Break with convention

DIARY

The Cassandra complex • Beware of billionaires touting the apocalypse

My Brother, Back Again

THE STRANGE DEATH OF LIBERTARIANISM

Stumbling bloc • Why would Canada want to hitch itself to the EU?

Quagmire • In Iran, America is being sucked deeper into a war it cannot win

Who’s afraid of AI?

Losing cause • President Zelensky’s strategy in the Ukraine war is national suicide

Screened out • Education technology has stolen students’ attention spans

Striving to the end

Complex equation • Is AI ruining mathematics?

Stranger than fiction • B. Traven had 27 aliases — will we ever know who he really was?

Out of Vogue • Will Anna Wintour survive the Galliano debacle?

Maine characters • On the trail of lobstermen, moose and the ghosts of the Greenville Inn

Bottom feeding • How the White House fell for the ‘Living Diet’

Turning sauer • Why pickled cabbage was a savior for sailors

New York life

Prejudices

Local life

The autistocracy • The men on the spectrum who rule our world

Can Reform reform?

THE SPECTATOR’S NOTES

Just start oil • Labour must go further and faster in the North Sea

Andelys

Educating Archie • I’ve found the perfect school for the Sussex children

Closed book • The precipitous decline of biblical literacy

Rise of the ‘zombie readers’

Swing state • Canada is much easier to love than America

We need to talk about Lindsay Clancy

Swede dreams • Will Britain learn from Sweden’s immigration crackdown?

Forever in the pink • Most lives contain great swaths of boredom, but not Barbara Cartland’s. Every page of this biography is a cliffhanger

Scents and sensibility

Top guns

Embroidering the truth • The miraculous precision of the Bayeux Tapestry

Safe journey

Suitably epic

Splendor in the bluegrass

No life

Dog’s life

My Prague awakening • A visit in the 1970s turned out to be an excellent history lesson

How to train a driverless car

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Lumpfish

Whimsy