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The Spectator

21 February 2026 Aus

100% Angus. No bull

The Taylor cabinet’s choice cuts

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Aussie Life

Aussie life

In an exciting breakthrough in academic hygiene, the University of Adelaide is to install ‘squat toilets’ in new buildings. This…

Aussie Life

Language

I have finally snapped! I have become so annoyed by lying halfwits misusing the word ‘genocide’ that I am going…

More from life

There’s no beating the comfort of cabinet pudding

The British hold a steamed pudding close to their hearts. Like a culinary hot-water bottle, it may not be terribly…

Sport

The real problem with Welsh rugby

Wales rugby coach Steve Tandy must have the most difficult job in sport, apart maybe from Jim Ratcliffe’s public–relations whizz.…

The turf

The future of racing is in the Middle East

You can always judge a country by the reception you get at passport control. America is aggressive. Don’t even think…

No sacred cows

Why is Hope Not Hate out to get me?

Hope Not Hate is up to its usual tricks in the Denton and Gorton by-election, keeping Britain safe from fascists.…

Competition

Spectator Competition: Wintry look

Competition 3437 invited you to submit a passage or poem incorporating the line ‘Why, what’s the matter, That you have…

Dear Mary

Dear Mary: How can I stop my friend from ruining books I love?

Q. Our daughter is very keen on a young man from her office whom she has brought home to stay…

Food

Like dining with Elrond in Rivendell: Corenucopia reviewed

Corenucopia by Clare Smyth is in Belgravia, amid a line of interior-design shops, and it is prettier than all of…

Real life

The day Peter Mandelson tried to get me sacked

Assuming it was full of junk, I tried to pull the trunk out of the way but I couldn’t move…

No life

Should I be a Jew, Muslim or Hindu?

Time is running out. We all have to meet our maker at some point, and although I’m fit as a…