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Trump’s Rock

DIARY

Game plan • Trump is rapidly dismantling Xi’s anti-America coalition

Little Song

Exit strategy • Trump’s Iran intervention won’t signal the return of neoconservatism

‘There is no plan’ • Inside MAGA’s meltdown over Iran

Turkey baiting • Erdoǧan’s biggest fear over the Iran crisis is a renewed Kurdish insurgency

Blood meridian • What happens in Mexico now that El Mencho’s gone?

The FBI needs its own Epic Fury

Hezbollah on the brink • Will the militia step back from the conflict — or take the war to Israel?

Education should take a leap backward

Bring on the nihilists • MAGA must tear up the moral order — not create a new one

Alien concept • Nobody knows what lurks in the cosmos

Beyond the Cloud • Inside the race to build AI data centers in space

The conspiracy conundrum

The everyman elitist • Gavin Newsom’s memoir is a fascinating study of privilege – but it fails as a political manifesto, says Carson Becker

The counterfeit Kennedys • TV shouldn’t sanitize JFK Jr., says Clare McHugh

New York life

Havana life

Palm life

Cutting the mustard • Dijon is one of the kitchen’s most versatile condiments

In vino veritas

Siren calls • The undeniable lure of Positano

Empire strikes back • Paul Wood on a very British adventure in the Indo-Pacific

‘We’re here to stay’ • Inside the daring mission to reclaim Chagos

The Cherry Orchard

Capital punishment

THE SPECTATOR’S NOTES

Trial by outrage • Ghislaine’s case shows why we must not abandon due process

ANCIENT AND MODERN • Misguided empire

Dubai’s Ritz spirit

‘Idiots, sycophants and traitors’ • Inside Russia’s rotten army

A hush falls, then Starmer speaks

In bed together • The writers of HBO’s Industry on bankers and politicians

A terrible beauty • Tim Butcher on the corrupting power of gold

Venice’s dark backwater

Power dressing

The new Wagnerian A-lister • Since his first Wotan in Naples in 2023, the baritone Christopher Maltman has found himself in demand on every major stage. Richard Bratby spoke to him

God’s little artist

Return of the King

There’s something about Mary Ann

Vanity fayre

La dolce vita

Real life

Why I’m a proud Zionist

The Battle for Britain

It’s time to give the Welsh their due

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Mustaches

Both things can be true