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BOOKS & ARTS
3 Leading article
6 Portrait of the Week
7 Diary The Spectator and me
Rory Stewart
9 The Spectator’s Notes
The wrong moment to go
grouse shooting
Charles Moore
11 Peter Bland
‘Help’: a poem
12 Barometer Gathering storms,
teachers’ pay, popular attractions
15 Rod Liddle Magic Grandpa may
win the battle but lose the war
16 Ancient and modern All the rage
23 James Delingpole How I beat
the autumn blues
28 Letters Helping the homeless,
Brexit logic, Prince Harry’s choices
29 Any other business
The PPI scandal ends — but the
nuisance calls will keep coming
Martin Vander Weyer
10 All to play for
Boris Johnson’s great election gamble
James Forsyth
12 Europe’s missing heart
Britain must leave the EU now
William Shawcross
14 I can topple that
The Queen knows more about
genuine coups than anyone
Robert Hardman
16 Gatekeeper anxiety
The serfs are thinking for themselves
— and their betters don’t like it
Stephen Daisley
20 In the balance
Ipso’s leaked guidelines on
Islamophobia mark a sinister shift
Will Heaven
21 Double standards
Regressive demands on the media
only hurt minorities
Trevor Phillips
22 Fair game
Celebrity outrage over trophy
hunting is missing the point
Patrick Galbraith
24 Village fate
Moving to the country was a mistake
Louise Perry
27 Letter from Algeria
William Dalrymple
BOOKS
30 Craig Raine
The Lives of Lucian Freud: Youth,
by William Feaver
32 Peter Parker
Lucian Freud: Herbarium,
by Giovanni Aloi
33 Clare Mulley
Our Man in New York,
by Henry Hemming
Jeff Noon
on recent crime fiction
34 Marcus Berkmann
on Neville Cardus
35 Allan Mallinson
A Peer Among Princes,
by Philip Grant
36 Oliver Balch
Dopeworld,
by Niko Vorobyov
38 Daniel Swift
Chastise, by Max Hastings
39 James Russell
‘A Shot Rang Out’: a poem
Emily Hill
Travel Light, Move Fast,
by Alexandra Fuller
THE WEEK
Freudian slips, p
The new figurativism, p
‘Five minutes is a long
time in politics’, p
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