BOOKS & ARTS
3 Leading article
6 Portrait of the Week
9 Diary The lost joy of dirty words
Julie Burchill
10 Politics The Tory plan to spend
Corbyn’s inheritance
James Forsyth
11 The Spectator’s Notes
Bring on the next Black Wednesday
Charles Moore
17 Rod Liddle
How smoking saved my life
20 Barometer Caravans, 50p pieces,
and depressing social media
23 James Delingpole Why do our
sweet boys behave in stupid ways?
25 Mary Wakefield Sometimes
women need a good sheikh
29 Letters Political vitriol, Desert Island
Discs, and defending Diane Abbott
30 Any other business Has Philip
Hammond saved the high street?
Martin Vander Weyer
12 Europe’s empty throne
Angela Merkel is on her way out
— but who will take over?
Douglas Murray
13 C.J. Driver
‘An Old Man and His Wife’: a poem
14 How to trap a journalist
Hacks love winning awards —
and lobbyists know it
Nick Cohen
19 Losing the plot
MPs now do all their conspiring
on WhatsApp – and get nowhere
Katy Balls
20 Hostages to fortune
Trump’s sanctions on Iran seem
unlikely to succeed
John R. Bradley
24 Can’t pay, shouldn’t pay
The loan charge is extremely unjust
Iain Dale
26 Picky eaters
The right to forage is an ancient law
Daniel Butler
BOOKS
32 Frances Wilson
Germaine, by Elizabeth Kleinhenz
34 Natalie Haynes
Not All Dead White Men, by
Donna Zuckerberg
A.N. Wilson
Francis, by Ann Wroe
35 Laura Freeman
Little, by Edward Carey
36 Jon Day
Middle England, by Jonathan Coe
Tim Hopkins
‘Looking Forward’: a poem
Steven Poole
Milk of Paradise, by Lucy Inglis
37 Daniel Hahn
on writing and language
38 Houman Barekat
Insomnia, by Marina Benjamin
39 Christopher Bray
The Vampire, by Nick Groom
40 Claire Kohda Hazelton
Unsheltered, by Barbara Kingsolver
Nigel Jones
on Napoleon
41 Juliet Nicolson
The Light in the Dark,
by Horatio Clare
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