The Spectator has thousands of readers in South Africa, many of whom get their weekly magazine from Woolworths, the country’s upmarket retailer. Not any longer. Woolworths has taken the bizarre decision to stop selling The Spectator. The apparent trigger? Gareth Roberts’s ‘End of the rainbow’ cover story.

Does Woolworths really think its shoppers can’t cope with encountering such an image on their weekly grocery shop?

The issue featuring that article hit newsstands........

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