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Spectator | 
| Publisher: The Spectator Ltd
Category: Magazine
Buy New: $279.33
Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 2752
Format: Magazine Subscription
Type: Trade magazine
Subscription Issues: 52
Subscription Length: 12 Months
Issues Per Year: 52
First Issue Lead Time: 4-6 Weeks
ASIN: B00006LDSV
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 4 to 6 weeks
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Product Description
Covers politics, international affairs, literature and the arts.
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 High quality, but the free online version may be enough for you. October 29, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The Speccy, as it is known, is Britain's oldest continuously published magazine, first appearing in 1828. It covers politics, arts and lifestyle themes. The quality is high, except for the abysmal cartoons.
It is right wing, by British standards, and supports the Conservative Party. This bias is reflected in its editorials and most, but not all, of its articles.
Their spectator.co.uk website is very good. It contains most of what's in the print edition plus quite a lot that isn't. Some regular columns are not included in full, except with a paid online subscription. This is unfortunately true of my favorite, Dot Wordsworth's 'Mind Your Language', which covers topics relating to English usage. The crossword is a recent inclusion in the free online edition. Some readers used to buy the printed magazine just for that. Be warned that it is one of the most difficult crosswords out there.
Raymond Keene's chess column is one of the best there is. That also is available in full online, free.
Unusually for these days, the magazine features an original poem each week, and the standard is remarkably high.
You can get a very good idea of whether the Speccy is to your taste by visiting the website, (you have to register, but registration is free) and then you can decide whether to buy an online or print subscription.
If it seems too far to the right for you, take a look at its left-wing rival, The New Statesman.
 A weekly blast from Britain October 13, 2003
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is the best read for knowing what people in Britain are thinking and arguing about this week, or half of them, anyway. It is shamefully and unashamedly politically incorrect. I must say I start at the back of the book, with the country's most preposterous agony aunt and well written, even touching columns on low life, City life, the turf etc. The book and arts reviews are superb. As for the political coverage, well, if that's what the Conservative British think, what am I suppose to do about it, huh? An excellent complement to Pravda and the Washington Post.
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