The_Spectator_23_September_2017
LIONEL SHRIVER At this rate, we’ll have to rename New York never reading the inscriptions — and the older the statuary, the more ...
Crime and prejudice Beware of jumping to conclusions about Brexit-induced violence ROSS CLARK seemed to be a far less pleasant p ...
and hatred’. Maybe; but then again maybe not. The figures have to be considered in the context of rising reports of ‘hate crime’ ...
JAMES DELINGPOLE Accept this as the new normal? Never of that presumably staged but iconic sec- ond world war photo of the jolly ...
LETTERS The Taki effect Sir: Taki does not seem to realise just how famous and influential he really is (High Life, 16 September ...
ANY OTHER BUSINESS| MARTIN VANDER WEYER A rate rise in November? After years of dithering, don’t bet on it handsomely for the be ...
‘The Falconer’, c.1880, by Hans Makart Martin Gayford — p43 Jane Ridley is amazed that David Cannadine has found a new way to vi ...
BOOKS & ARTS BOOKS Britain über alles The 19th-century belonged to us, according to David Cannadine’s ambitious new history. ...
as they had been at the Battle of Waterloo’, says Cannadine, and it too was a close-run thing. Afterwards, the Brits economised ...
BOOKS & ARTS The hunger Owen Matthews Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum Allen Lane, £25, pp. 496 In 1933 ...
the Party use a recent law on ‘theft of state property’ to prosecute collective and indi- vidual farmers in Ukraine who were all ...
BOOKS & ARTS The cult of Holy Bob Ian Thomson So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley Text and photographs by ...
Deep learning Neel Mukherjee Late Essays 2006–2017 by J.M. Coetzee Harvill Secker, £17.99, pp. 304 Given the brilliance of his c ...
BOOKS & ARTS play is so fidgety and inconclusive that the reader is left panting for a cup of cocoa. Goldstein is a man for ...
ology — the ‘Erfoud manuport’. Formerly the prized possession of some homo erectus who carried it around his or her person, this ...
BOOKS & ARTS ARTS SPECIAL iAddicts Rory Sutherland doesn’t have an iPhone. But he knows why you do F or many years The Spect ...
APPLE INC/HANDOUT/EPA-EFE/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK iPhone 8 Plus, unveiled last week at the new Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Headquarters ...
BOOKS & ARTS Museums The icemen cometh Daisy Dunn Scythians: warriors of ancient Siberia British Museum, until 14 January 20 ...
Siberian forests. The remains were placed in coffins made from whole trees and interred in felt-lined chambers. When a chief die ...
BOOKS & ARTS ‘Cnidarians’ from Haeckel’s book Art Forms in Nature, 1899–1904 © TASCHEN KÖLN/NIEDERSÄCHSISCHE STAATS- UND UNI ...
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