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Spectator Life

An intelligent mix of culture, food, style and property, plus where to go and what to see.

How I made Tyler, the Creator uncool

From Spectator Life

I tried getting my husband to go with me, but wild horses wouldn’t have dragged him so I forced a friend’s son to come instead. I’m talking about going to see Tyler, The Creator at the O2. That’s Tyler, The Creator, the magnificent hip hop artist who was banned from the UK in 2015 by

Spectator TV

Lloyd Evans

Butlin’s is cashing in on nostalgia

From Spectator Life

Magazine

This week's magazine

Starmer vs the workers

The real Brexit betrayal

Michael Gove

Starmer vs the workers: the real Brexit betrayal

Keir Starmer looked blank. The shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, seemed confused. Only the old Stalinist Seumas Milne seemed really to understand. It was 2019. Labour’s front bench team, and their leader Jeremy Corbyn’s close advisers, were being upbraided – from the left. Why were they putting the interests of international capital ahead of our workers?

Starmer vs the workers: the real Brexit betrayal

Keir Starmer looked blank. The shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, seemed confused. Only the old Stalinist Seumas Milne seemed really to understand. It was 2019. Labour’s front bench team, and their leader Jeremy Corbyn’s close advisers, were being upbraided – from the left. Why were they putting the interests of international capital ahead of our workers?

Culture

The good, the bad and the ugly in books, exhibitions, cinema, TV, dance, music, podcasts and theatre.

We’ve underestimated Francis Rossi

From the magazine

I have a friend who insists that had Status Quo hailed from Düsseldorf rather than Catford, they would nowadays be as critically revered as Can, Faust, Neu! and those other hallowed Teutonic pioneers of unyielding rhythm from the 1970s. Maybe so. Very probably not. Canned Heat and ZZ Top seem more reachable comparisons. But it’s

Podcasts

Cartoons

Grizelda

‘‘I get it. You can see that I don’t get it.’’

Cartoon

Matt Percival

‘‘I love these insights into your creative process.’’

Cartoon

Nick Newman

‘‘Now I no longer eat food, I take photos of my fat jab.’’

Cartoon