The Spectator - February 08, 2018

ARTS

40 Daisy Dunn

Ocean Liners: Speed and Style

42 Exhibitions

Kettle’s Yard reopening

Martin Gayford

43 Television

The Secret Life of Five-Year-Olds;

Hull’s Headscarf Heroes

James Walton

44 Opera

Un ballo in maschera

Alexandra Coghlan

45 Theatre

Julius Caesar; Dry Powder

Lloyd Evans

46 Cinema

Loveless

Deborah Ross

48 Radio

Kate Chisholm

The listener

Justin Timberlake: Man of the Woods

Rod Liddle

LIFE

55 High life Taki

Low life Jeremy Clarke

56 Real life Melissa Kite

57 Wild life Aidan Hartley

Bridge Susanna Gross

AND FINALLY...

50 Notes on ...

Abbaye Saint-Michel

Christopher Winn

58 Chess Raymond Keene

Competition

Lucy Vickery

59 Crossword Columba

60 No sacred cows

Toby Young

Battle for Britain

Michael Heath

61 Sport Roger Alton

Your problems solved

Mary Killen

62 Food Tanya Gold

Mind your language

Dot Wordsworth

LIFE

Sister suffragettes, p

How we learned to stop worrying

and love the bomb, p

Liam Halligan writes
about the global stock market
movements — and what they
signify — on p12. He is the
author of Clean Brexit.

Paulina Neuding, who

examines Sweden’s soaring

violent crime on p16, is a

lawyer and journalist. She is a

campaigner for the reform of

human rights law.

Jane Ridley, who writes

about women’s suffrage on p30,

is the author of Bertie: A Life

of Edward VII, and Victoria:

Queen, Matriarch, Empress in

the Penguin Monarchs series.

David Edgerton is

Hans Rausing Professor of

the History of Science and

Technology at King’s College

London and author of Britain’s

War Machine. He mulls nuclear

annihilation on p33.

Hugh Thomson’s One Man

And A Mule, about travelling

across the north of England,

was published recently by

Random House. He reviews

Graham Robb’s book about

the borders on p36.

CONTRIBUTORS

I am proud of my great-aunt

Kathleen Brown, who once

hijacked a horse-drawn fire-engine

in the suffragette cause and

charged it down the Tottenham

Court Road clanging its bell

Charles Moore, p

Fun-loving party-people seem oddly

keen to be handcuffed to dwarfs

Polly Morgan, p

An owl’s eyes fill half its skull;

and its heart, placed on the left

breast of a sleeping woman,

will make her tell all

John McEwen, p

Floating palaces, p