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class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="How fun is it being part of an Amazonian tribe? ">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/james-walton/"> James Walton </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-fun-is-it-being-part-of-an-amazonian-tribe/"> How fun is it being part of an Amazonian tribe?  </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Television </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Tribe with Bruce Parry ran for three fondly remembered series in the mid-2000s. Now, upgraded to Tribe with Bruce Parry, it’s back, still championing traditional ways of life – including that of a TV presenter who lives among remote peoples, takes loads of drugs with them and marvels at their closeness to nature. Sunday’s episode</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-fun-is-it-being-part-of-an-amazonian-tribe/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/511416.png?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/511416.png?resize=1025,683 1025w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/511416.png?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/511416.png?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/511416.png?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/511416.png?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/511416.png?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/511416.png?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="high" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--nine-up">  <div class="mosaic__tile-row mosaic__tile--three-up"> <article id="article-551342" class="article article--row article--three-up article--vertical article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-bottom" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Perfection: The Rest is Classified reviewed">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/daisy-dunn/"> Daisy Dunn </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/perfection-the-rest-is-classified-reviewed/"> Perfection: The Rest is Classified reviewed </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Radio </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Interviewing for MI6 sounds to have been even scarier a century ago than it must be today. Candidates would enter an office to find a man with a ‘large intelligent head’ seated behind a desk and absorbed in paperwork. Everything would appear normal until he picked up a penknife and stabbed his own leg. A</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/perfection-the-rest-is-classified-reviewed/"> <img width="262" height="147" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/iStock-2184841073.png?resize=262,147" class="ratio-16/9" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/iStock-2184841073.png?resize=1214,683 1214w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/iStock-2184841073.png?resize=320,180 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/iStock-2184841073.png?resize=375,211 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/iStock-2184841073.png?resize=500,281 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/iStock-2184841073.png?resize=640,360 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/iStock-2184841073.png?resize=800,450 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/iStock-2184841073.png?resize=980,551 980w" sizes="(max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> <article id="article-551348" class="article article--row article--three-up article--vertical article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-bottom" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Visit the King’s Head Theatre for one of the greatest theatrical surprises of the year">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/lloyd-evans/"> Lloyd Evans </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Lloyd Evans" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/visit-the-kings-head-theatre-for-one-of-the-greatest-theatrical-surprises-of-the-year/"> Visit the King’s Head Theatre for one of the greatest theatrical surprises of the year </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Theatre </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Amanda Abbington’s new show is heavily indebted to Noël Coward’s Hay Fever.Coward’s early play follows the tribulations of the superficial Bliss family and at first it was rejected by producers because it lacked action or incident. The oddly titled show, (This is not a) Happy Room, opens on the eve of a family wedding. Disaster</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/visit-the-kings-head-theatre-for-one-of-the-greatest-theatrical-surprises-of-the-year/"> <img width="262" height="147" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Amanda-Abbington-Alison-Liney.png?resize=262,147" class="ratio-16/9" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Amanda-Abbington-Alison-Liney.png?resize=1214,683 1214w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Amanda-Abbington-Alison-Liney.png?resize=320,180 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Amanda-Abbington-Alison-Liney.png?resize=375,211 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Amanda-Abbington-Alison-Liney.png?resize=500,281 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Amanda-Abbington-Alison-Liney.png?resize=640,360 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Amanda-Abbington-Alison-Liney.png?resize=800,450 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Amanda-Abbington-Alison-Liney.png?resize=980,551 980w" sizes="(max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> <article id="article-551359" class="article article--row article--three-up article--vertical article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-bottom" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Rejoice at the Royal Ballet’s superb feast of Balanchine">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/rupert-christiansen/"> Rupert Christiansen </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/rejoice-at-the-royal-ballets-superb-feast-of-balanchine/"> Rejoice at the Royal Ballet’s superb feast of Balanchine </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Dance </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Any evening devoted to the multifaceted genius of George Balanchine is something to be grateful for, manna in the wilderness indeed, but the Royal Ballet’s current offering left me hungry for more. Three works were on the programme, all created in the early stage of the great man’s career, two of them widely familiar, none</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/rejoice-at-the-royal-ballets-superb-feast-of-balanchine/"> <img width="262" height="147" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Aprnewnewdancepic.jpg?resize=262,147" class="ratio-16/9" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Aprnewnewdancepic.jpg?resize=923,519 923w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Aprnewnewdancepic.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Aprnewnewdancepic.jpg?resize=375,211 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Aprnewnewdancepic.jpg?resize=500,281 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Aprnewnewdancepic.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Aprnewnewdancepic.jpg?resize=800,450 800w" sizes="(max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div>  <div class="mosaic__tile-group mosaic__group-rail-alternative"> <div class="mosaic__tile-featured"> <article id="article-551336" class="article article--featured article-- article--vertical article--post article--book-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-bottom" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="The Pinochet affair: the pursuit of a Chilean dictator">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/jonathan-sumption/"> Jonathan Sumption </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-pinochet-affair-the-pursuit-of-a-chilean-dictator/"> The Pinochet affair: the pursuit of a Chilean dictator </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> More from Books </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Calle Londres 38 is the address in Santiago of one of the notorious detention centres where the government of the Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet tortured and murdered its opponents after the military coup of 1973. This book is mainly about the international row that broke out between 1998 and 2000 when Pinochet, by then</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-pinochet-affair-the-pursuit-of-a-chilean-dictator/"> <img width="440" height="248" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2Pinochet.jpg?resize=440,248" class="ratio-16/9" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2Pinochet.jpg?resize=1164,655 1164w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2Pinochet.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2Pinochet.jpg?resize=375,211 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2Pinochet.jpg?resize=500,281 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2Pinochet.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2Pinochet.jpg?resize=800,450 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2Pinochet.jpg?resize=980,551 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div>  <div class="mosaic__tile-rail"> <article id="article-551340" class="article article--rail article--small-excerpt article-- article--horizontal article--post article--book-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-left" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="The last of the great salonnières">  <figure class="article__image article__image-left"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-last-of-the-great-salonnieres/"> <img width="200" height="113" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/3Pamela-Berry-Alamy.jpg?resize=200,113" class="ratio-16/9" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/3Pamela-Berry-Alamy.jpg?resize=1000,563 1000w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/3Pamela-Berry-Alamy.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/3Pamela-Berry-Alamy.jpg?resize=375,211 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/3Pamela-Berry-Alamy.jpg?resize=500,281 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/3Pamela-Berry-Alamy.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/3Pamela-Berry-Alamy.jpg?resize=800,450 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/3Pamela-Berry-Alamy.jpg?resize=980,551 980w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" 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/anne-de-courcy/"> Anne de Courcy </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-last-of-the-great-salonnieres/"> The last of the great salonnières </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> More from Books </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Lady Pamela Berry (Pam to everyone, so that is what I too shall call her) did many things in her life. She was president of the Incorporated Society of Fashion Designers and chair of the British Museum Society; and she conducted a passionate ten-year affair with the goatish Malcolm Muggeridge. But she was best known</p> </div> </header>  </article> <article id="article-551345" class="article article--rail article--small-excerpt article-- article--horizontal article--post article--book-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-left" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Doctor, Doctor: the genesis of a national folk hero">  <figure class="article__image article__image-left"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/doctor-doctor-the-genesis-of-a-national-folk-hero/"> <img width="200" height="113" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/4William-Hartnell-Getty.jpg?resize=200,113" class="ratio-16/9" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/4William-Hartnell-Getty.jpg?resize=1000,563 1000w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/4William-Hartnell-Getty.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/4William-Hartnell-Getty.jpg?resize=375,211 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/4William-Hartnell-Getty.jpg?resize=500,281 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/4William-Hartnell-Getty.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/4William-Hartnell-Getty.jpg?resize=800,450 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/4William-Hartnell-Getty.jpg?resize=980,551 980w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" 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/travis-elborough/"> Travis Elborough </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/doctor-doctor-the-genesis-of-a-national-folk-hero/"> Doctor, Doctor: the genesis of a national folk hero </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> More from Books </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">John Higgs begins his foray into the long-standing BBC television science fiction series Doctor Who with a personal anecdote about going to the pub with Tom Baker, the notoriously bibulous actor who played the part of the Doctor from 1975 to 1981 – still longer than anyone else. For me, as for Higgs, Baker was</p> </div> </header>  </article> </div> </div>  <div class="mosaic__tile-row-two"> <article id="article-551364" class="article article--row-two article--one-up article--horizontal article--post article--book-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-left" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Tony Benn, bogeyman to some, beacon of hope and light to many">  <figure class="article__image article__image-left"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/tony-benn-bogeyman-to-some-beacon-of-hope-and-light-to-many/"> <img width="200" height="133" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Benn.jpg?resize=200,133" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Benn.jpg?resize=1025,683 1025w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Benn.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Benn.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Benn.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Benn.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Benn.jpg?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Benn.jpg?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" 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/alex-burghart/"> Alex Burghart </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/tony-benn-bogeyman-to-some-beacon-of-hope-and-light-to-many/"> Tony Benn, bogeyman to some, beacon of hope and light to many </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> More from Books </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Among the most striking things about Tony Benn was his friendship with Enoch Powell. They entered the House together in 1950 and became regular presenters on The Week in Westminster before falling out over ‘rivers of blood’ and then making up. For Benn, politicians were ‘weathercocks’ or ‘signposts’, and Powell, like himself, was the latter.</p> </div> </header>  </article> <article id="article-551375" class="article article--row-two article--one-up article--horizontal article--post article--book-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-left" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="The Da Vinci world of known unknowns">  <figure class="article__image article__image-left"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-da-vinci-world-of-known-unknowns/"> <img width="200" height="133" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/6Leonardo-Bridgeman.jpg?resize=200,133" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/6Leonardo-Bridgeman.jpg?resize=1000,667 1000w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/6Leonardo-Bridgeman.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/6Leonardo-Bridgeman.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/6Leonardo-Bridgeman.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/6Leonardo-Bridgeman.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/6Leonardo-Bridgeman.jpg?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/6Leonardo-Bridgeman.jpg?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" 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/alexander-lee/"> Alexander Lee </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-da-vinci-world-of-known-unknowns/"> The Da Vinci world of known unknowns </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> More from Books </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">When Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Salvator Mundi’ was sold in 2017 for $450 million it caused a sensation. Dismissed as an anonymous ‘wreck’ just 12 years before, it had become the single most expensive artwork ever to come to auction. Newspapers – goggle-eyed at the price – hailed the discovery of a ‘lost’ Leonardo. The Louvre</p> </div> </header>  </article> <article id="article-551387" class="article article--row-two article--one-up article--horizontal article--post article--book-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-left" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Murder she imagined: The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami reviewed">  <figure class="article__image article__image-left"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/murder-she-imagined-the-dream-hotel-by-laila-lalami-reviewed/"> <img width="200" height="133" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/7Lalami.jpg?resize=200,133" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/7Lalami.jpg?resize=1000,667 1000w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/7Lalami.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/7Lalami.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/7Lalami.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/7Lalami.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/7Lalami.jpg?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/7Lalami.jpg?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" 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/boyd-tonkin/"> Boyd Tonkin </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/murder-she-imagined-the-dream-hotel-by-laila-lalami-reviewed/"> Murder she imagined: The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami reviewed </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> More from Books </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">‘In dreams begins responsibility,’ wrote W.B. Yeats. In the near-future America imagined by Laila Lalami, culpability starts there, too. Charged with the prevention of potential crimes, the Risk Assessment Administration monitors not just every aspect of citizens’ behaviour but, via tiny ‘neuroprosthetics’, the hidden drives revealed in sleep. As an RAA agent insists: ‘Every murder</p> </div> </header>  </article> </div> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="one-up"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--one-up"> <article id="article-551403" class="article article--one-up article--horizontal article--post article--book-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-left" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Satire and settled scores: Universality by Natasha Brown reviewed">  <figure class="article__image article__image-left"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/satire-and-settled-scores-universality-by-natasha-brown-reviewed/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/8Natasha.jpg?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/8Natasha.jpg?resize=1001,667 1001w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/8Natasha.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/8Natasha.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/8Natasha.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/8Natasha.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/8Natasha.jpg?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/8Natasha.jpg?resize=980,653 980w" 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/anthony-cummins/"> Anthony Cummins </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/satire-and-settled-scores-universality-by-natasha-brown-reviewed/"> Satire and settled scores: Universality by Natasha Brown reviewed </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> More from Books </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">In 2023 Natasha Brown published an article taking the reader behind the scenes of two interviews that she had given to newspapers in Australia and Spain while promoting her debut novel, Assembly. The point was to expose sleight of hand in the resulting write-ups, to say nothing of shabby conduct more generally. One interviewer, eager</p> </div> </header>  </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">2 Apr 2025</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="six-up"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-551331" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--book-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Poor little rich girl: the extraordinary life of Yoko Ono">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/lynn-barber/"> Lynn Barber </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/poor-little-rich-girl-the-extraordinary-life-of-yoko-ono/"> Poor little rich girl: the extraordinary life of Yoko Ono </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Lead book review </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">David Sheff first met Yoko Ono in 1980 when Playboy commissioned him, then aged 24, to interview her and John Lennon. She asked him to send her his astrological and numerological charts before summoning him to the Dakota, where she and John occupied six apartments. (Elton John, a friend of theirs, wrote an excellent spoof:</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/poor-little-rich-girl-the-extraordinary-life-of-yoko-ono/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/1Yoko-Ono-Getty.jpg?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/1Yoko-Ono-Getty.jpg?resize=1022,681 1022w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/1Yoko-Ono-Getty.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/1Yoko-Ono-Getty.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/1Yoko-Ono-Getty.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/1Yoko-Ono-Getty.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/1Yoko-Ono-Getty.jpg?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/1Yoko-Ono-Getty.jpg?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--six-up">  <div class="mosaic__tile-group"> <div class="mosaic__tile-featured"> <article id="article-551328" class="article article--featured article-- article--vertical article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-bottom" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Never fully comes to life, alas: Mr Burton reviewed">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/deborah-ross/"> Deborah Ross </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/never-fully-comes-to-life-alas-mr-burton-reviewed/"> Never fully comes to life, alas: Mr Burton reviewed </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Cinema </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Mr Burton is a biopic of Richard Burton’s early years and an origins story, if you like. It stars Harry Lawtey as young Richard and Toby Jones as Philip Burton, the inspirational teacher whose name he would take. It’s a fascinating story. In essence, Richard’s drunkard father sold him for £50. But the film is</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/never-fully-comes-to-life-alas-mr-burton-reviewed/"> <img width="440" height="248" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Aprfilm.jpg?resize=440,248" class="ratio-16/9" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Aprfilm.jpg?resize=1214,683 1214w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Aprfilm.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Aprfilm.jpg?resize=375,211 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Aprfilm.jpg?resize=500,281 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Aprfilm.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Aprfilm.jpg?resize=800,450 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Aprfilm.jpg?resize=980,551 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div>  <div class="mosaic__tile-rail"> <article id="article-551325" class="article article--rail article-- article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-left" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Metal for people who don’t understand metal: The Darkness at Wembley reviewed">  <figure class="article__image article__image-left"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/metal-for-people-who-dont-understand-metal-the-darkness-at-wembley-reviewed/"> <img width="200" height="200" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GettyImages-2207546405.png?resize=200,200" class="ratio-1/1" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GettyImages-2207546405.png?resize=683,683 683w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GettyImages-2207546405.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GettyImages-2207546405.png?resize=375,375 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GettyImages-2207546405.png?resize=500,500 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GettyImages-2207546405.png?resize=640,640 640w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" 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/michael-hann/"> Michael Hann </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/metal-for-people-who-dont-understand-metal-the-darkness-at-wembley-reviewed/"> Metal for people who don’t understand metal: The Darkness at Wembley reviewed </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Pop </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Midway through their thoroughly entertaining show at Wembley Arena, the Darkness played a song from a decade ago called ‘Barbarian’, about Ivar the Boneless and the Viking conquest of Britain. ‘Barbarian’ exists in a long tradition of men with long hair, tight trousers and loud guitars singing about our Danish friends. Led Zeppelin did it</p> </div> </header>  </article> <article id="article-551320" class="article article--rail article-- article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-left" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Wonderfully intimate: The Drawings of Victor Hugo, at the RA, reviewed">  <figure class="article__image article__image-left"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/wonderfully-intimate-the-drawings-of-victor-hugo-at-the-ra-reviewed/"> <img width="200" height="200" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Aprexhibitions.jpg?resize=200,200" class="ratio-1/1" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Aprexhibitions.jpg?resize=818,818 818w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Aprexhibitions.jpg?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Aprexhibitions.jpg?resize=375,375 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Aprexhibitions.jpg?resize=500,500 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Aprexhibitions.jpg?resize=640,640 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Aprexhibitions.jpg?resize=800,800 800w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" 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/hermione-eyre/"> Hermione Eyre </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/wonderfully-intimate-the-drawings-of-victor-hugo-at-the-ra-reviewed/"> Wonderfully intimate: The Drawings of Victor Hugo, at the RA, reviewed </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Exhibitions </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">You feel so close to Victor Hugo in this exhibition. It’s as if you are at his elbow while he sighs at his standing desk at the top of his house on Guernsey, where he held France constantly in view as he worked. Here, frustrated by Les Misères (working title), he has thrown down his</p> </div> </header>  </article> <article id="article-551318" class="article article--rail article-- article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-left" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="The liberating force of musical modernism ">  <figure class="article__image article__image-left"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-liberating-force-of-musical-modernism/"> <img width="200" height="200" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/IMG_6954.png?resize=200,200" class="ratio-1/1" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/IMG_6954.png?resize=683,683 683w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/IMG_6954.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/IMG_6954.png?resize=375,375 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/IMG_6954.png?resize=500,500 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/IMG_6954.png?resize=640,640 640w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" 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/richard-bratby/"> Richard Bratby </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-liberating-force-of-musical-modernism/"> The liberating force of musical modernism  </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Classical </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">It’s Arvo Part’s 90th birthday year, which is good news if you like your minimalism glum, low and very, very slow. Lots of people seem to. The London Philharmonic’s concert on Saturday night was a reminder of an earlier, less ingratiating Part: the dissident composer in Soviet-controlled Estonia. Hannu Lintu revived Part’s First Symphony of</p> </div> </header>  </article> </div> </div>  <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--two-up"> <article id="article-551315" class="article article--row article--two-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-left" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="The beauty and brilliance of Cradle of Filth">  <figure class="article__image article__image-left"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-beauty-and-brilliance-of-cradle-of-filth/"> <img width="200" height="200" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Aprlistener.jpg?resize=200,200" class="ratio-1/1" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Aprlistener.jpg?resize=1024,1024 1024w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Aprlistener.jpg?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Aprlistener.jpg?resize=375,375 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Aprlistener.jpg?resize=500,500 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Aprlistener.jpg?resize=640,640 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Aprlistener.jpg?resize=800,800 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Aprlistener.jpg?resize=980,980 980w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" 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/rod-liddle/"> Rod Liddle </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Rod_L.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Rod Liddle" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Rod_L.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Rod_L.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Rod_L.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Rod_L.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Rod_L.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Rod_L.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Rod_L.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Rod_L.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Rod_L.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Rod_L.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Rod_L.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Rod_L.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Rod_L.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Rod_L.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Rod_L.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Rod_L.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Rod_L.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Rod_L.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Rod_L.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Rod_L.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Rod_L.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-beauty-and-brilliance-of-cradle-of-filth/"> The beauty and brilliance of Cradle of Filth </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> The Listener </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Grade: B+ Satan’s devoted groupies Cradle of Filth are back with their shrieking, howling, portentous, Exorcist-style incantations, 30 years after effectively inventing the loser-boy goth-metal offshoot, black metal. They’ve got quite good at it. Rapid-paced minor-chord hard rawk, much as AC/DC might have churned out if someone had shown them some Edgar Allan Poe and</p> </div> </header>  </article> <article id="article-551311" class="article article--row article--two-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-left" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="The National Trust’s plans for Clandon Park are a travesty">  <figure class="article__image article__image-left"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-national-trusts-plans-for-clandon-park-are-a-travesty/"> <img width="200" height="200" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Aprlead.jpg?resize=200,200" class="ratio-1/1" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Aprlead.jpg?resize=1024,1024 1024w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Aprlead.jpg?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Aprlead.jpg?resize=375,375 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Aprlead.jpg?resize=500,500 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Aprlead.jpg?resize=640,640 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Aprlead.jpg?resize=800,800 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/5Aprlead.jpg?resize=980,980 980w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" 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/calvin-po/"> Calvin Po </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-national-trusts-plans-for-clandon-park-are-a-travesty/"> The National Trust’s plans for Clandon Park are a travesty </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Arts feature </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">In April 2015, a fire raged through Clandon Park, destroying much of the 18th-century Palladian mansion’s prized interiors. Contrary to all expectations, the National Trust, its custodian, announced plans to keep the Grade I-listed building ‘as a ruin’. Architects Allies and Morrison would ‘creatively curate’ the celebrated property as ‘a country house laid bare’, adding</p> </div> </header>  </article> </div> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">27 Mar 2025</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-main" data-grid="nine-up"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-550170" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Why we’re flocking to matinees">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/jonathan-maitland/"> Jonathan Maitland </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-were-flocking-to-matinees/"> Why we’re flocking to matinees </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Arts feature </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">The Starland Vocal Band were on to something. In their 1976 hit ‘Afternoon Delight’ they sang, in gruesomely twee harmony: ‘Gonna grab some afternoon delight/ My motto’s always been when it’s right it’s right/ Why wait until the middle of a cold, dark night?’ Granted, they were singing about rumpy-pumpy, not theatre-going, but for many</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-were-flocking-to-matinees/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Heath_tea.jpg?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Heath_tea.jpg?resize=1052,701 1052w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Heath_tea.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Heath_tea.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Heath_tea.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Heath_tea.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Heath_tea.jpg?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Heath_tea.jpg?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--nine-up">  <div class="mosaic__tile-row mosaic__tile--three-up"> <article id="article-550186" class="article article--row article--three-up article--vertical article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-bottom" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="I genuinely feared The End would never end">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/deborah-ross/"> Deborah Ross </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/i-genuinely-feared-the-end-would-never-end/"> I genuinely feared The End would never end </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Cinema </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Joshua Oppenheimer’s The End is a ‘post-apocalyptic musical’ starring Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon that is being sold as a ‘bold vision’. And as you know I’m all for bold visions – except perhaps ones that go on for two and a half hours (I genuinely feared The End would never end) and give the</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/i-genuinely-feared-the-end-would-never-end/"> <img width="262" height="147" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29Marfilm.jpg?resize=262,147" class="ratio-16/9" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29Marfilm.jpg?resize=1214,683 1214w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29Marfilm.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29Marfilm.jpg?resize=375,211 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29Marfilm.jpg?resize=500,281 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29Marfilm.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29Marfilm.jpg?resize=800,450 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29Marfilm.jpg?resize=980,551 980w" sizes="(max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> <article id="article-550191" class="article article--row article--three-up article--vertical article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-bottom" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Traditional music at its most graceful, ingenious and jaw-dropping ">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/graeme-thomson/"> Graeme Thomson </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/traditional-music-at-its-most-graceful-ingenious-and-jaw-dropping/"> Traditional music at its most graceful, ingenious and jaw-dropping  </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Pop </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">I was talking recently to a rock guitarist about the amount of music an audience hears during a typical concert that is ‘on track’ – in other words, not played live in the moment but instead stored, supplied and sequenced via computer. They suggested that nowadays every artist, from pop starlets to indie rebels, relies</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/traditional-music-at-its-most-graceful-ingenious-and-jaw-dropping/"> <img width="262" height="147" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/DSC6746-1.jpg?resize=262,147" class="ratio-16/9" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/DSC6746-1.jpg?resize=962,541 962w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/DSC6746-1.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/DSC6746-1.jpg?resize=375,211 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/DSC6746-1.jpg?resize=500,281 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/DSC6746-1.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/DSC6746-1.jpg?resize=800,450 800w" sizes="(max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> <article id="article-550194" class="article article--row article--three-up article--vertical article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-bottom" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Ridiculously fun: Assassin’s Creed – Shadows reviewed">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/sam-leith/"> Sam Leith </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Sam Leith" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/ridiculously-fun-assassins-creed-shadows-reviewed/"> Ridiculously fun: Assassin’s Creed – Shadows reviewed </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> More from Arts </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Grade: A Sometimes you want to admire the pluck and inventiveness of an indie developer. At other times, you just want to sink into some thumping AAA franchise that’s thrown all the time, design talent and VC megabucks in the world at the screen. The new Assassin’s Creed has you covered there. Irresistibly, it’s set</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/ridiculously-fun-assassins-creed-shadows-reviewed/"> <img width="262" height="147" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29Marnewgamer.jpg?resize=262,147" class="ratio-16/9" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29Marnewgamer.jpg?resize=1024,576 1024w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29Marnewgamer.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29Marnewgamer.jpg?resize=375,211 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29Marnewgamer.jpg?resize=500,281 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29Marnewgamer.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29Marnewgamer.jpg?resize=800,450 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29Marnewgamer.jpg?resize=980,551 980w" sizes="(max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div>  <div class="mosaic__tile-group mosaic__group-rail-alternative"> <div class="mosaic__tile-featured"> <article id="article-550197" class="article article--featured article-- article--vertical article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-bottom" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="What a joy to see some Merce Cunningham again">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/rupert-christiansen/"> Rupert Christiansen </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/what-a-joy-to-see-some-merce-cunningham-again/"> What a joy to see some Merce Cunningham again </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Dance </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">How salutary to encounter the cool cerebral elegance of Merce Cunningham’s choreography again. A figure at the heart of the abstract tendency in post-war American culture, the lover and collaborator of John Cage, Cunningham emptied barefoot dance of ideology, symbolism, plot, personality, pretension: instead it became purely an exploration of bodies in movement, responsive to</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/what-a-joy-to-see-some-merce-cunningham-again/"> <img width="440" height="248" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29MarDance.jpg?resize=440,248" class="ratio-16/9" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29MarDance.jpg?resize=1038,584 1038w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29MarDance.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29MarDance.jpg?resize=375,211 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29MarDance.jpg?resize=500,281 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29MarDance.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29MarDance.jpg?resize=800,450 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29MarDance.jpg?resize=980,551 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div>  <div class="mosaic__tile-rail"> <article id="article-550202" class="article article--rail article--small-excerpt article-- article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-left" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Dope Thief is a cut above your usual inner-city crime-drama porn">  <figure class="article__image article__image-left"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/dope-thief-is-a-cut-above-your-usual-inner-city-crime-drama-porn/"> <img width="200" height="113" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Dope_Thief_Photo_010306.jpg?resize=200,113" class="ratio-16/9" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Dope_Thief_Photo_010306.jpg?resize=985,554 985w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Dope_Thief_Photo_010306.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Dope_Thief_Photo_010306.jpg?resize=375,211 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Dope_Thief_Photo_010306.jpg?resize=500,281 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Dope_Thief_Photo_010306.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Dope_Thief_Photo_010306.jpg?resize=800,450 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Dope_Thief_Photo_010306.jpg?resize=980,551 980w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" 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/james-delingpole/"> James Delingpole </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="James Delingpole" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/dope-thief-is-a-cut-above-your-usual-inner-city-crime-drama-porn/"> Dope Thief is a cut above your usual inner-city crime-drama porn </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Television </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">I really had no interest in watching Dope Thief. It’s another of those crime dramas set in a bleak-looking city – possibly there are some pretty parts of Philadelphia but we only get to see the bad bits – where everyone seems to be on welfare or a drug dealer, or both, everything looks washed</p> </div> </header>  </article> <article id="article-550205" class="article article--rail article--small-excerpt article-- article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-left" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Splendid revival of an unsurpassed production: Royal Opera’s Turandot reviewed">  <figure class="article__image article__image-left"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/splendid-revival-of-an-unsurpassed-production-royal-operas-turandot-reviewed/"> <img width="200" height="113" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29MarClassical.jpg?resize=200,113" class="ratio-16/9" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29MarClassical.jpg?resize=1248,702 1248w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29MarClassical.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29MarClassical.jpg?resize=375,211 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29MarClassical.jpg?resize=500,281 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29MarClassical.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29MarClassical.jpg?resize=800,450 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29MarClassical.jpg?resize=980,551 980w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" 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/richard-bratby/"> Richard Bratby </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/splendid-revival-of-an-unsurpassed-production-royal-operas-turandot-reviewed/"> Splendid revival of an unsurpassed production: Royal Opera’s Turandot reviewed </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Classical </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Puccini’s Turandot is back at the Royal Opera in the 40-year old production by Andrei Serban and… well, guilty pleasure is an unfashionable notion these days, but I still feel a batsqueak of shame at enjoying it so much. It’s not the chinoiserie – anyone who believes that an opera based on an 18th-century Italian</p> </div> </header>  </article> </div> </div>  <div class="mosaic__tile-row-two"> <article id="article-550209" class="article article--row-two article--one-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-left" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="I wish someone would kill or eat useless Totoro ">  <figure class="article__image article__image-left"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/i-wish-someone-would-kill-or-eat-useless-totoro/"> <img width="200" height="133" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/394178_My-Neighbour-Totoro-production-images-2025_2025.jpg?resize=200,133" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/394178_My-Neighbour-Totoro-production-images-2025_2025.jpg?resize=1025,683 1025w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/394178_My-Neighbour-Totoro-production-images-2025_2025.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/394178_My-Neighbour-Totoro-production-images-2025_2025.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/394178_My-Neighbour-Totoro-production-images-2025_2025.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/394178_My-Neighbour-Totoro-production-images-2025_2025.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/394178_My-Neighbour-Totoro-production-images-2025_2025.jpg?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/394178_My-Neighbour-Totoro-production-images-2025_2025.jpg?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" 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/lloyd-evans/"> Lloyd Evans </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Lloyd Evans" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/i-wish-someone-would-kill-or-eat-useless-totoro/"> I wish someone would kill or eat useless Totoro  </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Theatre </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">My Neighbour Totoro is a hugely successful show based on a Japanese movie made in 1988. The setting is a haunted house occupied by two little girls who encounter various creatures rendered on stage by puppets. The story has no action, danger or jeopardy so it’s likely to bore small boys and their dads. Perhaps</p> </div> </header>  </article> <article id="article-550036" class="article article--row-two article--one-up article--horizontal article--post article--book-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-left" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="A novel in disguise: Theory & Practice, by Michelle de Kretser, reviewed">  <figure class="article__image article__image-left"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-novel-in-disguise-theory-practice-by-michelle-de-kretser-reviewed/"> <img width="200" height="133" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/6Michelle-de-Kretser-©Joy-Lai.jpg?resize=200,133" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/6Michelle-de-Kretser-©Joy-Lai.jpg?resize=1001,667 1001w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/6Michelle-de-Kretser-©Joy-Lai.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/6Michelle-de-Kretser-©Joy-Lai.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/6Michelle-de-Kretser-©Joy-Lai.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/6Michelle-de-Kretser-©Joy-Lai.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/6Michelle-de-Kretser-©Joy-Lai.jpg?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/6Michelle-de-Kretser-©Joy-Lai.jpg?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" 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/philip-hensher/"> Philip Hensher </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-novel-in-disguise-theory-practice-by-michelle-de-kretser-reviewed/"> A novel in disguise: Theory & Practice, by Michelle de Kretser, reviewed </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> More from Books </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Michelle de Kretser, of a Sri Lankan family living in Australia, is an exceptional novelist – perhaps among the ten best at work in English today. She has been recognised with literary prizes, but it’s surprising that she hasn’t made quite the impact on the public she deserves. She is one of those writers who</p> </div> </header>  </article> <article id="article-550039" class="article article--row-two article--one-up article--horizontal article--post article--book-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-left" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Why, at 75, does Graydon Carter still feel the need to impress?">  <figure class="article__image article__image-left"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-at-75-does-graydon-carter-still-feel-the-need-to-impress/"> <img width="200" height="133" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/7Graydon-Carter-pic.-Credit-Nikolai-von-Bismarck.jpg?resize=200,133" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/7Graydon-Carter-pic.-Credit-Nikolai-von-Bismarck.jpg?resize=1000,667 1000w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/7Graydon-Carter-pic.-Credit-Nikolai-von-Bismarck.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/7Graydon-Carter-pic.-Credit-Nikolai-von-Bismarck.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/7Graydon-Carter-pic.-Credit-Nikolai-von-Bismarck.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/7Graydon-Carter-pic.-Credit-Nikolai-von-Bismarck.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/7Graydon-Carter-pic.-Credit-Nikolai-von-Bismarck.jpg?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/7Graydon-Carter-pic.-Credit-Nikolai-von-Bismarck.jpg?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" 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/toby-young/"> Toby Young </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Toby Young" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-at-75-does-graydon-carter-still-feel-the-need-to-impress/"> Why, at 75, does Graydon Carter still feel the need to impress? </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> More from Books </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">When I started working for Vanity Fair in 1995 I remember coming into the office one morning to discover that most of the senior editorial staff had disappeared. They weren’t at their desks, and phone calls went unreturned. Was this a Jewish holiday? It turned out to be the day Graydon Carter had set aside</p> </div> </header>  </article> </div> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="one-up"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--one-up"> <article id="article-550042" class="article article--one-up article--horizontal article--post article--book-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-left" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Heroes of the Norwegian resistance">  <figure class="article__image article__image-left"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/heroes-of-the-norwegian-resistance/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/8Norwegian-resistance-Getty.jpg?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/8Norwegian-resistance-Getty.jpg?resize=1082,721 1082w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/8Norwegian-resistance-Getty.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/8Norwegian-resistance-Getty.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/8Norwegian-resistance-Getty.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/8Norwegian-resistance-Getty.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/8Norwegian-resistance-Getty.jpg?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/8Norwegian-resistance-Getty.jpg?resize=980,653 980w" 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/christian-house/"> Christian House </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/heroes-of-the-norwegian-resistance/"> Heroes of the Norwegian resistance </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> More from Books </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Reading Robert Ferguson’s fascinating history of the experiences of the Norwegians during the five years of German occupation between 1940 and 1945 – a collage of resistance, collaboration and the grey areas in between – I was reminded of the remarks of two Norwegian nonagenarians. 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