The great rewir ing,
p12 & p36
Stench of death, p32
Mother knows best, p46
THE WEEK
3 Leading article 6 Portrait of the Week 7 Diary Why so much fuss over
The Spectator’s sale? George Osborne 8 The Spectator’s Notes
Why is Good Friday good? Charles Moore 13 Rod Liddle Family matters 17 Lionel Shriver Going electric requires electricity. Who knew? 21 Matthew Parris
Britain’s prisons shame us all 23 Barometer Triple lock costs, house affordability and women in clubs 27 Ancient and modern Club rules 28 Letters Bob Marley, Shakespeare and the genius of Johan Cruyff 29 Any other business
The West Midlands would be mad not to re-elect Mayor Street Martin Vander Weyer
10 Have mercy
Forgiveness has been forgotten Douglas Murray 11 Cross purposes
Grappling with anti-Semitism at Easter The Revd Michael Coren 12 Actress ’s notebook
The Online Safety Bill won’t go nearly far enough Sophie Winkleman 14 The Gray Lady
Keir Starmer’s chief of staff is an influential but divisive figure Katy Balls 16 War babies
Inside Ukraine’s fertility crisis Svitlana Morenets 18 Degrees of influence
Why the British think differently to Americans Yascha Mounk 22 White and wrong
Why do the French love UHT milk? Candida Crewe 24 Veni, vidi, non vici
Looking for romance at the British Museum Harry Mount 26 Living on a prayer
The secular tide is turning Justin Brierley
BOOKS & ARTS
BOOKS 30 Lara Feigel
Rural Hours, by Harriet Baker 32 Kate Teltscher
Pathless Forest, by Chris Thorogood 33 Stephen Bayley
Power and Glory, by Alexander Larman 34 Tomoé Hill
Red Pyramid, by Vladimir Sorokin 35 Paul Levy
This is My Life I’m Talking About, by Danny Lyon 36 Simon Ings
The Anxious Generation, by Jonathan Haidt Tessa Dunlop
The Eastern Front, by Nick Lloyd 37 Hermione Eyre
The Rising Down, by Alexandra Harris
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