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Spectator Life

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

Women don’t want to dress like Kate Middleton any more

From Spectator Life

Look, if you will, at Kate Middleton on the Isle of Mull for her wedding anniversary. There she was in skinny jeans, tucked-in blue shirt and tweed blazer, shod in what looked like sensible walking boots. It’s a look I like to call Royal Prep School Mummy, and she’s been at it for years: on

Spectator TV

James Snell

How the internet turned ugly

From Spectator Life

Magazine

This week's magazine

Scuzz Nation

Britain’s slow and grubby decline

Gus Carter

Welcome to Scuzz Nation

Reform’s success in last week’s local elections has been attributed to many causes. Labour’s abolition of the winter fuel payment for pensioners. The hollowing out of the Conservative party’s campaigning base. Nigel Farage’s mastery of social media. But if you want an emblem of why voters turned their back on the political establishment let me

Welcome to Scuzz Nation

Reform’s success in last week’s local elections has been attributed to many causes. Labour’s abolition of the winter fuel payment for pensioners. The hollowing out of the Conservative party’s campaigning base. Nigel Farage’s mastery of social media. But if you want an emblem of why voters turned their back on the political establishment let me

Culture

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

Art deco gave veneer and frivolity a bad name

From the magazine

The jazz style was the blowsy filling between the noxious crusts of two world wars. More than 30 years passed between its flourishing and its remonikered second coming as art deco, no longer gaudy ephemera, now a legitimate addition to the inventory of fashions. The coinage was initially ascribed to the antique dealer John Jesse.

Podcasts

Cartoons

Grizelda

‘‘Can I interest you in being alienated from democracy?’’

Cartoon

Grizelda

‘‘Let’s pave over our garden so we can charge our eco car.’ ’

Cartoon

Margaret Mitchell

Is AI evil?

From Spectator Life