The Spectator - 29.02.2020

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BOOKS & ARTS

3 Leading article

6 Portrait of the Week

7 Diary My carbon footprint

should put me in jail

Prue Leith

8 Politics

Sanders, Trump, and the populist juju

Freddy Gray

9 The Spectator’s Notes

Jean Vanier’s fall from grace

Charles Moore

15 Rod Liddle

The war the government must win

16 Ancient and modern Keeping

briefings brief

21 Douglas Murray How Sinn Fein

got away with murder

24 Barometer Stamp duty,

life expectancy and ‘royal’ brands

25 Mary Wakefield Why did no one

believe Johnny Depp?

27 Letters The BBC, Melvyn Bragg,

and Dot’s missing husband

28 Any other business

Bet like Buffett: the virus scare

is a chance to buy cheaper

Martin Vander Weyer

10 Le crunch

The UK and EU are heading for a

Brexit showdown

James Forsyth

(^11) Andrew McNeillie
‘Warm-up Act’: a poem
12 Pet peeve
Let animals be animals
Melissa Kite
16 A dirty business
Criminal gangs are growing rich
on public-sector contracts
Alasdair Palmer
18 Condé nasty
How Blair’s protégé became
another African strongman
Colin Freeman
23 A new angle
What would a Keir Starmer
Labour party look like?
Katy Balls
24 Feverish imaginations
The most dangerous thing about
coronavirus is the hysteria
Ross Clark

BOOKS

30 Antony Beevor

Our Bodies Their Battlefield,

by Christina Lamb

32 Sara Wheeler

Wayfinding, by Michael Bond

33 Emily Hill

My Wild and Sleepless Nights,

by Clover Stroud

James Walton

The Good, the Bad and the Little Bit

Stupid, by Marina Lewycka

34 John Self

Here We Are, by Graham Swift

Richard Lambert

‘The Twittering World’: a poem

Stephen Daisley

Red Sea Spies, by Raffi Berg

35 Mark Cocker

The Falcon Thief, by Joshua Hammer

36 Duncan Fallowell

Warhol, by Blake Gopnik

37 Mike Cormack

The China Journals,

by Hugh Trevor-Roper

THE WEEK

Empire’s last acquisition, p

Preyed on, p

Of f-centre, p

Cover by Morten Morland. Drawings by Michael Heath, Castro, Robert Thompson, Clare, K.J. Lamb, Pidge, Bernie, RGJ, Percival, Nick Newman, Grizelda, Geoff Thompson.

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