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BOOKS & ARTS

3 Leading article

7 Portrait of the Week

9 Diary George Osborne, the Today

programme’s Don Corleone

Sarah Sands

11 The Spectator’s Notes

The truth about Boris’s £350 million

Charles Moore

17 Rod Liddle Fostering hate

21 Lionel Shriver Let the statues stand

22 Barometer Euro millions, drink

driving and Scotland’s last snow

24 James Delingpole The age of terror

25 Letters Christians betrayed, race

relations and the Taki effect

26 Any other business Hoping for

a rate rise? Don’t bet on it

Martin Vander Weyer

12 Brexit wars

The Conservatives’ last battle over

Europe has just begun

James Forsyth

14 A court’s contempt

The ECJ’s quest for ever more power

Marina Wheeler

16 Can we be friends?

The MP who won’t drink with Tories

Isabel Hardman

18 Ukraine’s last best hope

Saakashvili, the great reformer

Owen Matthews

20 Close of play

I’m enjoying my long goodbye

Henry Blofeld

22 Crime and prejudice

Is Brexit-based violence real?

Ross Clark

BOOKS

28 Jane Ridley

Victorious Century,

by David Cannadine

30 Patrick Skene Catling

Dunbar, by Edward St Aubyn

Owen Matthews

Red Famine, by Anne Applebaum

31 Duncan Forbes

‘Willow’: a poem

32 Ian Thomson

So Much Things to Say,

by Roger Steffens

33 Neel Mukherjee

Late Essays 2006–17, by J.M. Coetzee

Richard Davenport-Hines

The World Broke in Two,

by Bill Goldstein

34 Harry Ritchie

How Language Began,

by Daniel L. Everett

35 Thomas W. Hodgkinson

Viking Britain, by Thomas Williams

THE WEEK

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