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Spectator Life

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

What was so great about the 1990s?

From Spectator Life

‘They’re selling hippie wigs in Woolworths, man… the greatest decade in the history of mankind is over,’ laments Danny the Dealer of the 1960s at the end of Withnail and I. These days, given the apparently insatiable appetite for all things 1990s, you could be forgiven for assuming that they’ve pinched that title. Nineties fashion

Spectator TV

David Shipley

My friend the people smuggler

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

Julie Bindel

Wagyu isn’t worth it

From Spectator Life