The Spectator - February 08, 2018

BOOKS & ARTS

3 Leading article

6 Portrait of the Week

9 Diary Why I refuse to shake hands,

Oscar bores and dating dilemmas

Joan Collins

10 Politics Brexit belongs to the Tories

James Forsyth

11 The Spectator’s Notes

How women’s suffrage was won

Charles Moore

15 Rod Liddle

Sometimes men deserve higher pay

21 Matthew Parris

The housing crisis myth

22 Ancient and modern

The emptiness of ‘issue’ politics

25 James Delingpole

Extreme pain changes everything

26 Barometer Brexit’s brain gain

and how to sell snake oil

27 Letters Hospital admissions, UN

abuses and some advice for vets

28 Any other business

Falling US shares tell us one thing

Martin Vander Weyer

12 The crash we need

Is this the end of the easy-money era?

Liam Halligan

13 Kieron Winn

‘The Last Walker’: a poem

16 Living in fear

Violent crime has spiked in Sweden

Paulina Neuding

20 Texas notebook

Intolerance, Trump and opioids

Michael Moorcock

22 A very minor prophet

I’m not buying into Jordan Peterson

Peter Hitchens

24 17 reasons to love Brexit

Imagine all we can do once we’ve left

Anthony Browne

26 Add dwarf to cart

Is it ever OK to hire a ‘little person’?

Polly Morgan

BOOKS

30 Jane Ridley

on the suffragists and suffragettes

32 John McEwen on owls

Ian Thomson

Brit(ish) by Afua Hirsch

33 David Edgerton on nuclear war

34 Connie Bensley

‘In the Butterfly House’: a poem

Sam Leith

Feel Free: Essays, by Zadie Smith

35 Julie Burchill

Bad Romance, by Emily Hill

36 Elisabeth Anderson

Somebody I Used to Know,

by Wendy Mitchell

Kate White

‘How Awfully Considerate of

Mrs Placid to Go Off and Get

Herself Massacred’: a poem

Hugh Thomson

The Debatable Land, by Graham Robb

37 Johanna Thomas-Corr

Sourdough, by Robin Sloan

38 Christopher Bray

The Pixels of Paul Cézanne,

by Wim Wenders

39 Jeff Noon on crime fiction

THE WEEK

Perplexed by Peterson, p

Zadie’s thinking aloud, p

Wise old bird, p

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