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I embrace the cosiness of autumn and</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/january-deserves-lemon-pudding/"> <img width="440" height="440" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/OPottsNLWeb.jpg?resize=440,440" class="ratio-1/1" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/OPottsNLWeb.jpg?resize=685,685 685w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/OPottsNLWeb.jpg?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/OPottsNLWeb.jpg?resize=375,375 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/OPottsNLWeb.jpg?resize=500,500 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/OPottsNLWeb.jpg?resize=640,640 640w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="magazine-issue__group"> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> <p> <a href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/magazines/spectator-wine/" class="magazine-issue__entry-link">Wine Club</a> </p> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-534862" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--society highlight-color-red article--image-left" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Six wines to make you ditch Dry January">  <figure class="article__image article__image-left"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/six-wines-to-make-you-ditch-dry-january/"> <img width="440" height="440" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/iStock-2151915700-1.jpg?resize=440,440" class="ratio-1/1" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/iStock-2151915700-1.jpg?resize=685,685 685w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/iStock-2151915700-1.jpg?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/iStock-2151915700-1.jpg?resize=375,375 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/iStock-2151915700-1.jpg?resize=500,500 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/iStock-2151915700-1.jpg?resize=640,640 640w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure>  <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/jonathan-ray/"> Jonathan Ray </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/six-wines-to-make-you-ditch-dry-january/"> Six wines to make you ditch Dry January </a> </h3> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">At 3.28 a.m. on 1 January, I made myself a promise: I would never touch alcohol again. Having over-egged it horribly during the carnage that passed for the neighbours’ NYE party, I had finally come to agree with Dean Wormer’s fabled observation in Animal House, that ‘fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through</p> </div> </header>  </article> </div> </div> <div class="magazine-issue__group"> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> <p> <a href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/magazines/no-sacred-cows/" class="magazine-issue__entry-link">No sacred cows</a> </p> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-534825" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--society highlight-color-red article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Farewell Justin Trudeau, the last of the lockdown tyrants">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/toby-young/"> Toby Young </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/farewell-justin-trudeau-the-last-of-the-lockdown-tyrants/"> Farewell Justin Trudeau, the last of the lockdown tyrants </a> </h3> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">So farewell then, Justin Trudeau, last of the lockdown tyrants. Or should that be the last of the democratically elected lockdown tyrants? After all, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin are still in office. But setting aside those authoritarians, it’s difficult to think of a single democratic leader apart from Emmanuel Macron who was in power</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/farewell-justin-trudeau-the-last-of-the-lockdown-tyrants/"> <img width="440" height="440" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Toby-Getty.jpg?resize=440,440" class="ratio-1/1" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Toby-Getty.jpg?resize=667,667 667w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Toby-Getty.jpg?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Toby-Getty.jpg?resize=375,375 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Toby-Getty.jpg?resize=500,500 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Toby-Getty.jpg?resize=640,640 640w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="magazine-issue__group"> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> <p> <a href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/magazines/dear-mary/" class="magazine-issue__entry-link">Dear Mary</a> </p> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-534845" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--society highlight-color-red article--image-left" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Dear Mary: should I tell people I’m WFB (Working from Barbados)?">  <figure class="article__image article__image-left"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/dear-mary-should-i-tell-people-im-wfb-working-from-barbados/"> <img width="440" height="440" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Dear-Mary-iStock.jpg?resize=440,440" class="ratio-1/1" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Dear-Mary-iStock.jpg?resize=671,671 671w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Dear-Mary-iStock.jpg?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Dear-Mary-iStock.jpg?resize=375,375 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Dear-Mary-iStock.jpg?resize=500,500 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Dear-Mary-iStock.jpg?resize=640,640 640w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure>  <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/mary-killen/"> Mary Killen </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/dear-mary-should-i-tell-people-im-wfb-working-from-barbados/"> Dear Mary: should I tell people I’m WFB (Working from Barbados)? </a> </h3> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Q. We live in a harmonious and social community in Berkshire and early last year our fun-loving neighbours invited us to a New Year’s Eve party. However, on about 29 December they packed up and went away, only returning on New Year’s Day. We usually have a bracing walk in the afternoons and are bound</p> </div> </header>  </article> </div> </div> <div class="magazine-issue__group"> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> <p> <a href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/magazines/drink/" class="magazine-issue__entry-link">Drink</a> </p> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-534853" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--society highlight-color-red article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Kemi should prepare for a political pounding">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/bruce-anderson/"> Bruce Anderson </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/kemi-should-prepare-for-a-political-pounding/"> Kemi should prepare for a political pounding </a> </h3> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">It is extraordinary to remember. When I was a small boy in Scotland, Christmas Day was not a holiday. My father almost closed his office, but someone was on duty. The main festivity was Hogmanay: not a holiday in England. Now the whole country closes down for a fortnight. A friend who is a serious industrialist</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/kemi-should-prepare-for-a-political-pounding/"> <img width="440" height="440" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Bruce-Getty.jpg?resize=440,440" class="ratio-1/1" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Bruce-Getty.jpg?resize=667,667 667w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Bruce-Getty.jpg?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Bruce-Getty.jpg?resize=375,375 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Bruce-Getty.jpg?resize=500,500 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Bruce-Getty.jpg?resize=640,640 640w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="magazine-issue__group"> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> <p> <a href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/magazines/mind-your-language/" class="magazine-issue__entry-link">Mind your language</a> </p> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-534865" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--society highlight-color-red article--image-left" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="What’s the point of a minster?">  <figure class="article__image article__image-left"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/whats-the-point-of-a-minster/"> <img width="440" height="440" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/dot-stock-image-1000x642-1.png?resize=440,440" class="ratio-1/1" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/dot-stock-image-1000x642-1.png?resize=642,642 642w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/dot-stock-image-1000x642-1.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/dot-stock-image-1000x642-1.png?resize=375,375 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/dot-stock-image-1000x642-1.png?resize=500,500 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/dot-stock-image-1000x642-1.png?resize=640,640 640w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure>  <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/dot-wordsworth/"> Dot Wordsworth </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/whats-the-point-of-a-minster/"> What’s the point of a minster? </a> </h3> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">The Philip Larkin Society has sponsored a pew in the huge medieval church of Holy Trinity, Hull. Larkin died 40 years ago and in 2017 the church was given the title Hull Minster. Eighteen churches have acquired the honorific minster since 1994. Most are historic civic piles: King’s Lynn and Rotherham, Doncaster and Leeds. The</p> </div> </header>  </article> </div> </div> <div class="magazine-issue__group"> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> <p> <a href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/magazines/poems/" class="magazine-issue__entry-link">Poems</a> </p> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-534938" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--poem article-- highlight-color-red" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="Max Wallis" aria-label="Vow">   <header class="article__header"> <p class="article__author">Max Wallis</p> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/poem/vow/"> Vow </a> </h3> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">I do not take you to be my husband or my fiancé, or even now my friend. I do not wish to have or to hold your head at the toilet’s rim. Nor keep you at arm’s length when you were other-him. I’ve had you better and the worst. I’ve certainly had you richer. As</p> </div> </header>  </article> </div> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-535080" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--poem article-- highlight-color-red" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="Jonathan Edwards" aria-label="The Ghost House">   <header class="article__header"> <p class="article__author">Jonathan Edwards</p> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/poem/the-ghost-house/"> The Ghost House </a> </h3> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">I looked through the window and I saw a sunny day. I say sunny day, but the thing about sun is how it casts shadows. It draws the shape of the house across the patio, and what this shape is is a ghost house, here, creeping its way across these slabs, as the day lengthens,</p> </div> </header>  </article> </div> </div> <div class="magazine-issue__group"> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> <p> <a href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/magazines/the-wiki-man/" class="magazine-issue__entry-link">The Wiki Man</a> </p> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-534837" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--society highlight-color-red article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="In defence of BA’s new loyalty scheme">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/rory-sutherland/"> Rory Sutherland </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/in-defence-of-bas-new-loyalty-scheme/"> In defence of BA’s new loyalty scheme </a> </h3> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">One of my favourite cartoons shows a couple sitting in luxury at the front of a plane, the wife peeking through the curtains to the cabin behind. ‘I’m so glad we’re in business class, darling,’ she says to her husband. ‘There seems to be some sort of hijacking happening in economy.’ Because we must consort</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/in-defence-of-bas-new-loyalty-scheme/"> <img width="440" height="440" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Wiki-Man-Getty.jpg?resize=440,440" class="ratio-1/1" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Wiki-Man-Getty.jpg?resize=641,641 641w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Wiki-Man-Getty.jpg?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Wiki-Man-Getty.jpg?resize=375,375 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Wiki-Man-Getty.jpg?resize=500,500 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Wiki-Man-Getty.jpg?resize=640,640 640w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> </div> <footer class="magazine-issue_footer" aria-label="Magazine footer"> <p class="magazine-issue__pagination"> <span class="magazine-issue__pagination-label">Next up</span> <a href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/magazine/11-01-2025/cartoons" class="magazine-issue__pagination-link" aria-label="Go to next magazine: Cartoons"> Cartoons <span class="button button--icon"> <svg class="svg-icon" role="presentation" focusable="false" height="10" width="10" viewbox="0 0 14 24"><path d="M13.63 12.797 2.59 23.67c-.441.44-1.154.44-1.594 0l-.666-.666a1.126 1.126 0 0 1 0-1.593L9.92 12 .34 2.59a1.126 1.126 0 0 1 0-1.594L1.005.33c.44-.44 1.153-.44 1.594 0L13.64 11.203c.431.44.431 1.153-.01 1.594Z" fill="currentColor" /></svg> </span> </a> </p> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </footer> </div> </div> </div> </main>  <footer id="js-site-footer" class="site-footer" aria-label="The Spectator Footer" role="contentinfo"> <div class="site-footer__inner container">  <nav class="site-footer__menu" aria-label="Useful links" role="navigation"> <h5 class="site-footer__heading">Useful links</h5> <ul id="menu-useful-links" class=""><li id="menu-item-429585" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-429585"><a href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/faqs/" class="site-footer__link" data-analytics-id="Footer - 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