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ARTS SPECIAL

36 Rory Sutherland

How Apple came to rule the world

38 Museums

Scythians: warriors of ancient Siberia

Daisy Dunn

39 Illustration

The art and science of Ernst Haeckel

Laura Gascoigne

41 Exhibitions Basic Instincts

Kate Chisholm

43 Art market Why do artists vanish?

Martin Gayford

44 Opera Pagliacci; L’enfant et les

sortilèges

Michael Tanner

45 Television Strike; Electric Dreams;

Bad Move; Porters; W1A

James Walton

46 Cinema Borg vs McEnroe

Deborah Ross

47 Radio Kate Chisholm

48 The listener LCD Soundsystem:

American Dream

Rod Liddle

Theatre Oslo; Prism

Lloyd Evans

49 Music Simon Rattle’s non-job

Norman Lebrecht

LIFE

53 High life Taki

Low life Jeremy Clarke

54 Elaine Feinstein

‘A Ghost in the Rylands Library’:

a poem

56 Real life Melissa Kite

57 Bridge Susanna Gross

Wine club Jonathan Ray

AND FINALLY...

50 Notes on... Gresham College

Mark Mason

58 Chess Raymond Keene

Competition Lucy Vickery

59 Crossword Pabulum

60 Status anxiety Toby Young

Battle for Britain Michael Heath

61 The Wiki Man Rory Sutherland

Your problems solved

Mary Killen

62 Drink Bruce Anderson

Mind your language

Dot Wordsworth

LIFE

The art of Haeckel, p

Lionel Shriver, the novelist,
is now a fortnightly columnist
for The Spectator. She writes
about pulling down statues
on p21.

Marina Wheeler is a

barrister and member of the

Bar Disciplinary Tribunal.

She’s also Boris Johnson’s wife.

She writes about the European

Court of Justice on p14.

Henry Blofeld has retired

from commentating for Test

Match Special. He reminisces

on p20.

Jane Ridley is a historian and

broadcaster. She reviews David

Cannadine’s book about 19th-

century Britain on p28.

Rory Sutherland is

executive creative director of

OgilvyOne and The Spectator’s

Wiki Man columnist. He

doesn’t have an iPhone. He

writes about iPhones on

page 36 and trade on p61.

CONTRIBUTORS

Any drive for ideological purity

is flat-out creepy

Lionel Shriver, p

Noam Chomsky has done his very

best to make his work on language

as arcane and incomprehensible

as string theory

Harry Ritchie, p

Nobody really goes to the bottle

ba nk to recycle glass : we do it for

the fun of smashing bottles

Rory Sutherland, p

My children have impeccable

manners, although my daughter has

inherited my violent side

Ta k i, p5 3

Apple’s terrifying power, p

Chatty Man, p