BOOKS & ARTS
3 Leading article
6 Portrait of the Week
7 Diary I hate the Oxford comma
Jacob Rees-Mogg8 Politics Taking bets on a
1 November election
James Forsyth9 The Spectator’s Notes
Were the US shootings
racially motivated?
Charles Moore16 Barometer Leaking dams, obese
patients and no-deal fruit and veg18 Ancient and modern
Breaking the deadlock19 James Delingpole A gang of
sheep rustlers is stalking our county23 Mary Wakefield Like so many
parents, I’m a panic junkie25 Letters Cutting God, failing
schools, and a reason to fly26 Any other business Should we be
sad or happy the pound has buckled?Martin Vander Weyer
10 Why leave?
Visit Saltburn, not Spain
Rod Liddle
11 The towns making waves
Trains are the answer
Ross Clark12 What’s your favourite beach?
A Spectator poll
Tom Holland, Richard Madeley,
Cressida Bonas and Douglas Murray16 Bill of health
Extra cash for the NHS must
come with conditions
Max Pemberton18 Cast astray
Desert Island Discs has lost the plot
Melanie McDonagh20 Losing our religion
Christian ethics can’t survive
without Christian faith
Greg Sheridan24 Designer’s notebook
How will Boris decorate No. 10?
Nicky HaslamBOOKS
28 David Crane
King and Emperor,
by Janet L. Nelson30 Claire Kohda Hazelton
Going Home, by Raja Shehadeh
Melanie McDonagh
The Curse of the School Rabbit,
by Judith Kerr
31 Sinclair McKay
The Fatal Passion of Alma
Rattenbury, by Sean O’Connor32 Hugh Thomson
The Fens, by Francis Pryor33 Mia Levitin
Three Women, by Lisa Taddeo
Niall Griffiths
Night Boat to Tangier,
by Kevin Barry
34 Richard Davenport-Hines
Creative Gatherings,
by Mary Ann Caws35 Anna Aslanyan
The Memory Police, by Yoko Ogawa
David Crystal
Semicolon, by Cecelia WatsonTHE WEEK
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