BOOKS & ARTS
3 Leading article
6 Portrait of the Week
7 Diary My wheelchair isn’t all bad
Prue Leith8 Politics Boris goes all-out for a deal
James Forsyth9 The Spectator’s Notes
TV licences, Archbishop Welby
and the burning Amazon
Charles Moore14 Ancient and modern
Striking a deal, Roman-style16 Barometer Bombing hurricanes,
fighting forest fires, and pork pies17 Matthew Parris History will soon
be able to judge this fraught time23 Lionel Shriver The grown-ups
have become the problem24 Letters Harry’s army career,
royal travels, and religious studies25 Any other business
This is the wrong time to tackle
the issue of boardroom payMartin Vander Weyer
Rod Liddle is away
10 Battle begins
The fate of Boris Johnson’s
liberal conservatism
Fraser Nelson
11 Stephen Romer
‘Old Man Elevenses’: a poem12 The phoney war
The Middle East waits for
the US to bomb Iran
Paul Wood(^14) A losing battle
Germany’s once-fearsome military
has become a joke
Ross Clark
16 Where’s Wolly?
What does Totnes think of its MP?
Lloyd Evans
18 Wild thing
An interview with Cerys Matthews
Emily Hill
21 Smoke and mirrors
The most dangerous thing about
the Amazon fires is the rhetoric
Matt Ridley
22 Wake-up call
How to solve the problem
of rough sleeping
Adam Holloway
BOOKS
26 Jonathan Sumption
Dominion, by Tom Holland
28 Max Décharné
Decca, by Darren Henley and
Daryl Easlea
29 Isabel Hardman
I Never Said I Loved You,
by Rhik Samadder
30 Duncan White
Broken Ghost, by
Niall Griffiths
Greg Garrett
Fabulous Monsters, by
Alberto Manguel
31 Rodric Braithwaite
Winds of Change,
by Peter Hennessy
32 Ian Thomson
on Georges Simenon
THE WEEK
Obsessed with Bob Dylan, p
Will the phoney war turn real? p
Have you seen her? p
Cover by Morten Morland. Drawings by Michael Heath, Castro, Evans, Kipper Williams, Grizelda, Bernie, Adam Singleton, Nick Newman, Phil Disley
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