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Spectator Life

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

What happened to comic con?

From Spectator Life

As a child, superhero comics felt like a guilty secret – their devotees part of a secret society who found refuge in the musty, cardboard-scented havens of comics conventions. Back then, girls were absent, dressing up was unheard of, and even children weren’t especially welcome. So when a gang of teenage girls not only turned

Spectator TV

Arabella Byrne

Wimbledon’s myth of elitism

From Spectator Life

Magazine

This week's magazine

Claws out

Can Starmer fend off Labour’s big beasts?

Tim Shipman

Can Keir Starmer fend off Labour’s big beasts?

It was the chronicle of a death foretold. Last year Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, drafted a memo for his boss spelling out in the starkest terms How Labour Could Fail. This week, instead of celebrating the first anniversary of Labour’s landslide election victory, the two men revisited that analysis and reflected on

Can Keir Starmer fend off Labour’s big beasts?

It was the chronicle of a death foretold. Last year Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, drafted a memo for his boss spelling out in the starkest terms How Labour Could Fail. This week, instead of celebrating the first anniversary of Labour’s landslide election victory, the two men revisited that analysis and reflected on

Culture

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

Podcasts

Cartoons

KJ Lamb

‘‘Which pop group did you disapprove of in the war, Daddy?’’

Cartoon

Stokoe

‘‘We couldn’t find a candle, so Nigel Farage gave us a cigarette to use instead.’’

Cartoon

Nick Newman

‘‘After one year Keir Starmer has learned to roll over, babble and crawl.’’

Cartoon

Nigel Jones

Venice is a city of love and menace

From Spectator Life