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For many weeks now the Spectator Magazine recipe yields no content, other than the single word "Features" on the first page, then nothing on the next page. That's all, only two basically empty pages and a cover.
There are no errors shown. The recipe does create and email the file. I use epub format.

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brilliant!

[mkgtu]

Checked again today (Sept 28). The recipe in calibre is a new version and works just fine. Even better arrangement of magazine content.
Thank you

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I spoke too soon. The new recipe in calibre worked ok yesterday for last week's issue but FAILED today with the new issue for this week (Oct 1 2022)

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The Week https://www.spectator.co.uk/magazine/latest/the-week
Rupa Huq and the politics of prejudice
Leading article | The Spectator | The Labour party’s contribution to the national debate this week has included the idea that someone can be ‘superficially’ black. Rupa Huq, a Labour MP, used this phrase to describe Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng. ‘If you hear him on the Today programme,’ she said, ‘you wouldn’t know he’s black.’ It was a daft yet revealing comment. In her moment of unintended (and perhaps career-destroying) candour, Huq exposed a prejudice that remains pervasive in British politics.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...s-of-prejudice
Portrait of the week: Chancellor unveils his unBudget, Hilary Mantel dies and corgi prices soar
Portrait of the week | The Spectator | Home Kwasi Kwarteng, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, presented a far-reaching ‘fiscal event’ (ineligible to be called a Budget), said to have cut more tax than any measure since 1972. The markets’ immediate response was to sell pounds, and sterling fell to $1.07 (though the euro also continued in its own decline against the dollar and the Chinese yuan fell sharply). The Treasury defensively said it would publish proposals for dealing with its debt and the Bank of England said it would buy government bonds to help ‘restore orderly market conditions’.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...gi-prices-soar
War has come home to Russia
Diary | Owen Matthews | Moscow A week of somewhat mixed messages from the Kremlin. One day Vladimir Putin opened Europe’s largest Ferris wheel and presided over citywide celebrations of Moscow’s 875th anniversary, full of calm and good cheer and mentioning the war only in passing. A few days later he appeared on national TV telling the world that he was ‘not bluffing’ about using nuclear weapons and announcing a partial mobilisation. Putin has never fought a contested election in his life, so he’s never been a great one for the common touch.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...home-to-russia
Peta, Lysistrata and the comedy of a sex strike
Ancient and modern | Peter Jones | The German branch of the ‘green’ organisation Peta (‘People for the ethical treatment of animals’) is demanding that, until men stop eating meat – apparently they cause 41 per cent more pollution than female carnivores – women must deny them sex. The same sanction had its origin, of course, in Aristophanes’s comedy Lysistrata (411 bc), staged during the war between Athens and Sparta (431-404 bc), just after Athens had suffered a disastrous defeat in a failed attempt on Sicily.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...f-a-sex-strike
Who was the first monarch to live in Buckingham Palace?
Barometer | The Spectator | Fit for a king King Charles III, it has been reported, is reluctant to move into Buckingham Palace. Who was the first monarch to live there? – The core of what is now the palace was built as a townhouse, Buckingham House, for the Duke of Buckingham in 1703 and purchased by George III as a home for Queen Charlotte and her children – while he lived at St James’s Palace. – His successor, George IV, started work on enlarging what by then was already called a palace, intending to use it for his own residence.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...kingham-palace
Letters: Britain needs the English National Ballet
Letters | The Spectator | Putin’s options Sir: I agree with Paul Wood that Vladimir Putin is on the back foot (‘Cornered’, 24 September). His actions, from partial mobilisation to nuclear threats to the rapid referenda in occupied Ukraine, indicate a psychopathic gambler who hopes that one last spin will turn Lady Fortune his way. However, there is a big gap between ‘losing’ and ‘lost’, and that is where the focus on the nuclear threat by the West is unhelpful and dangerous.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...ational-ballet
Featured articles https://www.spectator.co.uk/magazine...tured-articles
What crisis? A tough week for Trussonomics
Features | Kate Andrews | What’s the sign of a successful Budget? Chris Philp, the new chief secretary to the Treasury, gave his answer moments after Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s statement last Friday: a strong pound. ‘Great to see sterling strengthening on the back of the new UK growth plan,’ he tweeted out. A (temporary) rising pound made sense to Truss supporters, who argued that markets would support their transition to a lower-tax, higher-growth economy.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...r-trussonomics
‘We’re so close’: there’s a cautious optimism at Labour conference
Features | Katy Balls | When Liz Truss scheduled her mini-Budget for the Friday before Labour conference, there was concern in Keir Starmer’s office. After months of meticulous planning, Starmer’s team feared the new Tory government would use their event to upstage his and distract from the party’s annual gathering in Liverpool. They were right to think that Kwasi Kwarteng’s statement would dominate the headlines; what they didn’t realise was that this would work entirely to their advantage.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...our-conference
The ups and downs of driving a Tesla
Features | Bernard Cornwell | I began the week in Miami, looking forward to what a friend of mine describes as ‘the finest sight in all Florida – the departure lounge’. That is a little unfair; a tour of Cape Canaveral is mind-blowing. But beyond that I confess I find the state brash and gaudy, a fitting place for Donald Trump’s retirement. If indeed the 45th President has retired. No one will be surprised if he runs again, nor if he is re-elected with the help of his Republican party which has been busy restricting voters’ rights and playing origami with constituency boundaries.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...riving-a-tesla
Why has Oxford killed off a much-loved Catholic college?
Features | Dan Hitchens | Few institutions can match the global prestige of Oxford University. Just look at the gifts lavished on it, like offerings brought to some mighty emperor of the ancient world. There’s the Saïd Business School, controversially funded with £50 million from Wafic Saïd, who helped to broker the British-Saudi arms deal. There’s the carbuncular Blavatnik School of Government, criticised by Russian dissidents for how the funder made his millions.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...tholic-college
Red kites should never have been reintroduced to Britain
Features | Paul Sargeantson | I own a grass farm in the Chilterns which provides grazing for horses and haymaking. It also provides habitat for hares, skylarks, lapwings and field voles (the staple diet of my resident pair of barn owls) – which is why I am so set against the red kites. Between 1989 and 1994, red kites from Spain were imported and released into the Chilterns by the RSPB and Natural England. The population here had dwindled and the RSPB describes the reintroduction programme as ‘one of the UK’s biggest conservation success stories’.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...ced-to-britain
There’s a growing sense that tomorrow belongs to Sinn Fein
Features | Jenny McCartney | Where can Ulster Unionism go now? If it were a person, it would be someone in the grip of a long depression, whose occasional bursts of anger mask the fact that they so often feel despondent and betrayed. The widespread reaction to the latest Northern Ireland census, in which Catholics narrowly outnumber Protestants for the first time, is unlikely to give it a reason to be cheerful. A jubilant Michelle O’Neill, the Sinn Fein vice-leader, was quick to claim that ‘historic change is happening across this island’, while other party members called for a referendum on unity.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...s-to-sinn-fein
What does it mean when Giorgia Meloni quotes G.K. Chesterton?
Features | Sam Leith | For a UK audience, the most striking moment in the new Italian PM Giorgia Meloni’s victory speech will have been that she anchored its peroration to a quote from G.K. Chesterton. ‘Chesterton wrote, more than a century ago,’ she said, ‘“Fires will be kindled to testify that two and two make four. Swords will be drawn to prove that leaves are green in summer.” That time has arrived. We are ready.’ G.K. Chesterton? The creator of the excellently herbivorous Father Brown mysteries, the Isaac Newton of what we now call ‘cosy crime’? That G.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...-gk-chesterton
In defence of Warhammer
Notes on... | Gus Carter | Warhammer is a tabletop battle game. Players build and paint little models of aliens, tanks and killer robots and then set their armies against one another on a miniature battlefield. It’s a hobby that lights up the obsessive bits of the male brain: collecting, DIY, military uniforms, hierarchy and complex calculation – all in the name of domination. There are Warhammer clubs across the country as well as 138 dedicated Games Workshops where players can battle one another.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...e-of-warhammer
Columnists https://www.spectator.co.uk/magazine/latest/columnists
How high a price will Truss pay?
Columns | James Forsyth | This year’s Conservative party conference was supposed to be a moment of celebration for the new Tory leader. Instead there is a sense of mounting alarm. Liz Truss’s radicalism has been met with something approaching panic by both the markets and the public. The Bank of England has had to intervene in the gilts market to prevent ‘a material risk to UK financial stability’. The pound hit a 230-year low against the dollar.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...ill-truss-pay-
Why is the right not making the moral case for lower taxes?
Columns | Rod Liddle | There was an article recently in the increasingly woke but still useful New Scientist which attempted to gauge the degree to which luck was responsible for who we are and, hence, an individual’s life circumstances. I think it came in third place after genes and the environment – which are also both down to luck, really, I suppose. The thesis seemed to be we pay too little attention to the role of luck when considering why one man is a millionaire and the other is a lavatory attendant or a book reviewer.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...-feeling-lucky
I’m in trouble with the police
Columns | Douglas Murray | There is almost nothing I like more than a running battle. As my friend Julie Burchill also says, when a really good row comes along it gives you this warm, cosy feeling inside. So it was not with disappointment that I received a noteworthy response to my column of last week. For those who were sleeping on the job (or only read Rod’s column), I made some pertinent comments about community relations in the Leicestershire area.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...ith-the-police
Maybe Nanny does know best
Columns | Matthew Parris | Not least among the shivers down my spine as I listen to Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng pump up the rhetoric on their economic revolution is the evocation of myself – myself when young. Like Ms Truss, I too joined the Liberal party as an Oxbridge fresher. I too believed in the power of personal choice. I too had a dream of unhindered competition liberating the animal spirits of enterprise and individual genius. I too told myself that we liberals must grit our teeth and keep the faith when sink-or-swim left some to sink.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...does-know-best
Shame should not be heritable
Columns | Lionel Shriver | Vice-chancellor Stephen Toope claims it was ‘inevitable’ that a university ‘as long-established as Cambridge’ would have links to slavery. Now that faculties gorge on racial guilt as Cambridge dons once famously feasted on roasted swans, what was really inevitable is that a body christened ‘The Advisory Group on the Legacies of Enslavement’ would find links to slavery. Why, it must have frustrated the authors of the report released last week that their three-year inquiry didn’t manage to dredge up any evidence that the university ever directly owned slaves or plantations.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...t-be-heritable
The genius of Hilary Mantel
The Spectator's Notes | Charles Moore | Yes, but why did the IMF put out its Tuesday night statement? Even if all its criticisms of the government’s new economic policy were correct, why the rush? The IMF’s action is insulting to a G7 country and premature because its thoughts were inevitably composed without full knowledge. It is best seen as part of a pattern, like the early attempts to reverse Brexit, or the US government’s related interventions over the Northern Ireland Protocol.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...-hilary-mantel
City slickers’ reaction to Kwarteng’s unfunded plan is entirely rational
Any other business | Martin Vander Weyer | ‘Fury at the City slickers betting against UK plc,’ shouted the Daily Mail on Tuesday, after Monday’s mayhem saw the pound hit an all-time low of $1.03. A more accurate corporate metaphor, though less punchy as headline material, would have been something like this… Activist mavericks seize boardroom control of giant sluggish utility. Novice finance director slashes prices, raises dividends for rich shareholders, shuns in-house forecasters and says he’ll borrow whatever it costs.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...irely-rational
Books https://www.spectator.co.uk/magazine/latest/books
The unpleasant truth about Joseph Roth
Lead book review | Philip Hensher | Endless Flight is the first biography in English of the novelist Joseph Roth. This is very surprising, since Roth’s short, violent life traverses some of the most compelling episodes in 20th-century European history. He was a supremely elegant, intelligent and clear-sighted writer, despite living out of suitcases, in hotel rooms, always on the run. If most of his novels are flawed in one way or another, they are all interesting in others.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...ut-joseph-roth
Richard E. Grant’s tribute to his wife leaves us shattered for his loss
More from Books | Hermione Eyre | Richard E. Grant pulls off a feat here. The title is twee but the content isn’t. With unselfpitying dash the actor-writer recounts caring for his wife, the dialect coach Joan Washington, through lung cancer last year (‘Living grief. Raw. Savage.’). He thoughtfully interleaves the heartbreak with glitzy showbiz recollections which help keep our peckers up, so we ricochet through time, from the Golden Globes to the Royal Marsden, from sedative injections to Star Wars.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...d-for-his-loss
Explorer, author, soldier, lover: The Romantic, by William Boyd, reviewed
More from Books | Suzi Feay | William Boyd taps into the classical novel tradition with this sweeping tale of one man’s century-spanning life, even to the extent of providing the accustomed framing device: the chance discovery of a cache of papers and mementoes. The items listed by ‘WB’ in his ‘Author’s Note’ – a musket ball, a fragment of a Greek amphora, a crinkly lock of hair – all find their place in the tale of this 19th-century adventurer, lover, traveller and author.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...-boyd-reviewed
The agony and frustration of reporting from the Middle East
More from Books | Ian Birrell | For 25 years, Abed Takkoush assisted foreign reporters like Jeremy Bowen when they arrived to cover the chaos and conflicts in Lebanon. He drove them around in his battered Mercedes, pointing out with grim relish the places where dark deeds had taken place: the assassinations, atrocities, kidnappings and slaughter of civilians that scar this mesmerising nation. During one Israeli onslaught in 1996, Abed sped past a gunship firing at cars on the highway between Sidon and Tyre, laughing with relief when shells exploded on the road rather than the car.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...he-middle-east
The roots of 20th-century German aggression
More from Books | Richard Overy | It is the contention of Peter Wilson, professor of the history of war at Oxford University and the author of an acclaimed history of the Thirty Years’ War, that military historians have focused too much on the German wars of the 20th century in trying to understand German ‘militarism’ as a distinctive characteristic – a ‘genius for war’ imitated by others. As he points out, Germany and Austria lost the first world war, and Germany, with Austria now attached, lost the second as well.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...man-aggression
If buttons, balloons or premature burial terrify you, rest assured you’re not alone
More from Books | Maggie Fergusson | Every summer, during our holiday in Orkney, there is a moment of panic. We’re standing on a dizzying cliff – looking across a sleeve of sea at the Old Man of Hoy, maybe – and I’m consumed with a longing to fling myself over. It’s not suicidal. I just yearn to feel the wild rush of air against my cheeks: I want to fly. I’ve never met anyone who shares this compulsion, but The Book of Phobias and Manias assures me it’s quite common.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...u-re-not-alone
Arts https://www.spectator.co.uk/magazine/latest/arts
The art of menus
Arts feature | Jonathan Meades | There is, of course, no endeavour, no craft, no profession, no trade that neglects to ‘reflect society’. This is a commonplace. The collective narcissism of considerate builders, for instance, claims that hod carriers and brickwork reflect society. The contention of Menu Design in Europe is kindred. Graphic artists, restaurateurs, decorators and chefs have, through two centuries, expanded their capabilities according to the milieux in which they have practised.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-art-of-menus
Worthy of Wilde: Eureka Day, at the Old Vic, reviewed
Theatre | Lloyd Evans | Eureka Day is a topical satire set in a woke school in America. An outbreak of mumps has led to calls for a vaccination programme that will prevent the school from being quarantined and shut down entirely. The script, written in 2018, has acquired new layers of meaning since the Covid terror. It opens with a playful sketch in which four white teachers and a black parent try to agree how many ethnic categories should be recognised by school officials.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...d-vic-reviewed
The makers of Fauda have another hit on their hands: Sky Atlantic’s Munich Games reviewed
Television | James Delingpole | You’d have to pay me an awful lot more than I get for this column to review Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. As I write, it’s the number one trending show on Netflix, but the most I’m prepared to stomach is that snatch of footage you get forced to watch (because of Netflix’s impertinent and intrusive automatic play function) if you linger over the title image for too long. It shows two cops at an interview desk gradually revealing to Dahmer’s increasingly aghast dad (Richard Jenkins) that his son Jeffrey might not be quite the straight upstanding citizen he imagined.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...games-reviewed
Biomorphic forms that tempt the viewer to cop a feel: Maria Bartuszova, at Tate Modern, reviewed
Exhibitions | Laura Gascoigne | Art is a fundamentally childish activity: painters dream up images and sculptors play with stuff. It was while playing with an inflatable ball with her young daughter in the early 1960s that Maria Bartuszova had the idea of filling balloons with liquid plaster instead of air. The inspiration fed her muse for 30 years, seeding the mixed crop of biomorphic forms currently filling five rooms at Tate Modern. Trained in ceramics at Prague Academy of Arts under communism, Bartuszova turned to plaster after moving with her sculptor husband Juraj Bartusz to the industrial city of Kosice, now in Slovakia, in 1963.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...odern-reviewed
Pleasantly untaxing: Mrs Harris Goes to Paris reviewed
Cinema | Deborah Ross | Mrs Harris Goes to Paris is a comedy-drama based on the 1958 novel by Paul Gallico about a cheerful, kind-hearted Battersea charlady who falls in love with a couture dress from Dior, decides she must have one of her own, and off she goes. This is a familiar type of British film. It’s similar in spirit to, say, Florence Foster Jenkins or Paddington or The Duke or that golf one with Mark Rylance. It isn’t but could have been directed by Stephen Frears.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...paris-reviewed
Welcome to the weird world of the New Right: Subversive podcast reviewed
Radio | Angus Colwell | Subversive is a podcast that documents the world of the ‘New Right’, a strange development in conservatism. Host Alex Kaschuta, one of the movement’s intellectual leaders, gives a good sense of the New Right’s weirdness.Trembling minor-key synths play in the theme and Alex purrs that we’re about to hear a two-hour long conversation with ‘Covfefe Anon’. Other guests include ‘Zero H.P. Lovecraft’ and ‘Yeerk.P’. Some are anonymous commentators who have their voices distorted like a drug dealer in a Ross Kemp documentary.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...dcast-reviewed
Simple songs; voice like the grand canyon: George Ezra, at OVO Hydra, reviewed
Pop | Graeme Thomson | It would be easy to be a little dismissive of George Ezra. A wholesome late twentysomething hailing from the rock and roll badlands of Hertfordshire, Ezra is the kind of pop star you could happily take home to meet your grandparents. A graduate of the British and Irish Modern Music Institute, good-looking in that long, toothy Prince William way, he seems to be laboratory designed not to offend or challenge even the most prickly sensibilities.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...hydra-reviewed
Why does opera always feel the need apologise for its plots?
Classical | Richard Bratby | Leos Janacek disliked long operas, and the first act of The Makropulos Affair is a masterclass in how to set up a drama without an ounce of fat. There’s a prelude: driving motor-rhythms, surges of emotion, and somewhere in the distance – far away (or long ago) – the sound of trumpets. The curtain rises and we’re tipped brusquely into a lawyers’ office in the early 20th century. The lawsuit they’re discussing is long-winded and complex: aren’t they always? No matter.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...-for-its-plots
Life https://www.spectator.co.uk/magazine/latest/life
Rupert Murdoch has nothing to fear from me
High life | Taki | Harvard man Russell Seitz has sent me an extraordinary present as an object lesson in ‘what a magazine should be in case you start another one’. The paper has yellowed and is dog-eared, pages are falling out and the print is faint. But the Transatlantic Review, Vol. 1, No. 1, dated January 1924, is a joy to behold. Mind you, we were already almost 100 years old when Ford Madox Ford first edited TTR in Paris. And that’s what I told my friend Russell.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...o-fear-from-me
The joy of morphine sulphate
Low life | Jeremy Clarke | Two football friends, brothers, Mick and Pete, came to visit last week. We’ve been going to matches together since 1969, aged 12, in the good old skinhead days when the police enjoyed a punch-up as much as anybody. We used to travel all over the country on Lacey’s Coaches for away games and looked up to the older hooligans as gods. Those dockers were good honest scrappers, kind, fearless and very fun, in an era long before the sociologists or politicians started paying attention or hooligans wore designer jumpers.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...phine-sulphate
AA only admits the right sort of alcoholics
Real life | Melissa Kite | The support group groupies have issued another ban. They have attempted to slap an exclusion order on another long-standing member, in addition to the one they have meted out to my friend, the bricklayer. This latest victim hasn’t been to a meeting in Surrey for seven years because the last time he went, the local area committee accused him of something so Orwellian it was impossible for him to do anything other than leave.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...-of-alcoholics
The sweet satisfaction of a burnt Cambridge cream
More from life | The Vintage Chef Olivia Potts | If a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, then a Trinity or Cambridge burnt cream must taste as sweet as its French twin, the crème brûlée. The two cooked custard dishes are essentially identical: an egg yolk-rich baked custard served cold and topped with a layer of hard caramel. Both are similar to the crema Catalana you find throughout Spain (known as ‘crema cremada’ in Catalan cuisine), but Catalana is made with milk rather than cream.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...ambridge-cream
I’m on Andrew Doyle’s side – for now
No sacred cows | Toby Young | I’ve agreed to interview the author and journalist Andrew Doyle about his new book at the Conservative party conference – on stage, no less – so I thought I’d better read it. It’s about the inexorable rise of the social justice warriors, whom he regards as a danger to the survival of free speech and, by extension, the institutions and traditions that our liberal democracy depends on. My first reaction was one of irritation.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...s-side-for-now
Dear Mary: How do I get out of a friend’s bad birthday party?
Dear Mary | Mary Killen | Q. I shall be spending more time in the company of newer acquaintances in the West Country and would appreciate your advice with regard to a resurfacing problem: narcolepsy. The condition is the source of much embarrassment and I find myself at pains to explain it upfront. (People may infer spurious connections due to limited understanding – that is to say ‘narc’ is now much more closely associated with narcissistic tendencies or worse, narcotics.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...birthday-party
Why the dry martini is the finest cocktail of all
Drink | Bruce Anderson | We were discussing bourbon and whether American whiskey could ever rival Scotch. I recalled the first time I ever tried the transatlantic spirit. It was more than 50 years ago, in an undergraduate room in Oxford. The occupant was an ingenious fellow. At the beginning of one term, he wrote to Jim Beam, the whiskey makers. He informed them that he had discovered their wonderful product in the States, but it appeared to be impossible to come by in Oxford, which was a pity, because it deserved to be better known (in truth he had never tasted it and had never been to the US).
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...ocktail-of-all
What ‘Budget’ and ‘bilge’ have in common
Mind your language | Dot Wordsworth | The Budget (which the revolutionary fiscal act last week was technically not) is directly connected with bilge and with one of the circles of Dante’s Hell, the eighth, which houses the financial fraudsters, speculators, extortionists, counterfeiters and false forecasters. The circle is divided into the ten ditches of Malebolge. The Malebolge, singular bolgia, take their name from Latin malus (‘evil’) and bulga (‘bag’).
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...have-in-common
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "runpy.py", line 196, in _run_module_as_main
File "runpy.py", line 86, in _run_code
File "site.py", line 82, in <module>
File "site.py", line 77, in main
File "site.py", line 49, in run_entry_point
File "calibre\utils\ipc\worker.py", line 215, in main
File "calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 31, in gui_convert_recipe
File "calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 25, in gui_convert
File "calibre\ebooks\conversion\plumber.py", line 1108, in run
File "calibre\customize\conversion.py", line 242, in __call__
File "calibre\ebooks\conversion\plugins\recipe_input.py ", line 138, in convert
File "calibre\web\feeds\news.py", line 1058, in download
File "calibre\web\feeds\news.py", line 1227, in build_index
File "<string>", line 74, in parse_index
File "<string>", line 86, in articles_from_soup
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not subscriptable

[mkgtu]

The above details of the failed download of this week's Oct 1 issue were from using the new recipe in calibre itself. I also imported the recipe provided here in this thread. That also failed today, with the same error details.

I also submitted a bug report to calibre with the above details.

[unkn0wn]

its fixed now by Kovidgoyal.

we didn't have any poems in the magazine last time..
if you want the poems add '/poem/'to that line 85 like below

a = div.find('a', attrs={
                'href': lambda x: x and x.startswith(('/article/', '/illustration/', '/poem/'))})
            if a is None:
                continue

There are too many classes in 'a' tag to choose from ..to define it by class and overlapping with other a tag classes. I think there would be no other link types though.

Spoiler:

<a class="Hyperlink_spectator-link__mj6Ms PodcastSeriesCard_spectator-link__9ZfP6 Hyperlink_spectator-link-unstyled__hBElk Hyperlink_spectator-link-muted__Z1NwJ ArticleCard_spectator-article-card__5aHNL MagazineContent_spectator-article-card__2Zx1y ArticleCard_spectator-article-card-theme-political__bi5bu ArticleCard_spectator-article-card-size-xl__57LWw ArticleCard_spectator-article-card-layout-type-magazine-hero__UvClt ArticleCard_spectator-article-card-author-image-hidden__Zq9NP ArticleCard_spectator-article-card-teaser-layout-stretch__jiP4N ArticleCard_spectator-article-card-media-type-teaser__OCkla ArticleCard_spectator-article-card-theme-political__bi5bu"

[mkgtu]

Thank you for fixing so quickly. Appreciate it.

[MarcoDiWA]

When I try to download it just says "failed". What's my problem. I have latest Calibre. I don't have a subscription to Spectator. Do I need one?
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[unkn0wn]

load the recipe from calibre fetch news & not the one attached here! (or make changes to it like shown above)