Hare highlights, p32

The right track, p50

How to speak Roonish, p30

LIFE

ARTS 40 Michael Hann

How TikTok brought has-been bands back to life 42 Radio & podcasts

Dealcraft; Springsteen at the BBC Jenny McCartney Exhibitions Paris 1924 Laura Gascoigne 44 Pop

On posthumous albums Graeme Thomson Television The Penguin Robert Jackman 46 Cinema

Megalopolis Deborah Ross 47 Theatre

Waiting for Godot; Two of Us Lloyd Evans 48 The listener

Markus Poschner’s Bruckner Damian Thompson Opera Eugene Onegin; Rigoletto Richard Bratby 49 Dance

Three Short Ballets; Giselle Rupert Christiansen

LIFE 53 City life Cosmo Landesman 54 Real life Melissa Kite 55 Wild life Aidan Hartley

Bridge Janet de Botton 57 Wine club Jonathan Ray AND FINALLY . . . 50 Notes on… Trams

Christian Wolmar 58 Chess Luke McShane

Competition Victoria Lane 59 Crossword Doc 60 No sacred cows

Toby Young Battle for Britain Michael Heath 61 The Wiki Man

Rory Sutherland Your problems solved Mary Killen 62 Drink

Bruce Anderson Mind your language Dot Wordsworth

CONTRIBUTORS

Colin Brazier is a former presenter for Sky News and GB News. He is now training to be a farmer. On p24 he writes about the abolition of widowhood.

Claire Lowdon is a writer, critic and author of the novel Left of the Bang. On p30 she reviews Sally Rooney’s new book.

Rodric Braithwaite, who writes about Russian war reporting on p32, is a former ambassador to Moscow and author of books including Russia: Myths and Realities.

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I have to decide whether to go to the Spectator part y or back to my hotel to watch myself on television, although I do not say this out loud. Rachel Johnson, p9

There have been five Batman films in ten years, which is even more than the number of Emily Maitlis/ Prince Andrew dramas. Robert Jackman, p44

Voting Labour and getting a neo-liberal Chancellor is like going on a Club 18-30 holiday and bringing your parents along. Rory Sutherland, p61

Rowan Pelling is a former editor of Erotic Review. She writes about an exciting new collection of filth on p34.

Christian Wolmar, who discusses the joy of tram travel on p50, is author of The Liberation Line: The Last Untold Story of the Normandy Landings.

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