ARTS
42 Tanya Gold
Bring back Kevin Spacey
44 Exhibitions
The true face of Islam
Ed Husain
45 Radio
BBC Sounds
Kate Chisholm
46 Theatre
A Very Very Very Dark Matter;
The Wild Duck
Lloyd Evans
47 Opera
Lucia di Lammermoor; Serse
Alexandra Coghlan
48 Television
The Little Drummer Girl;
Sally4Ever
James Walton
Cinema
Peterloo
Deborah Ross
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...
The Dengie Hundred
Fred Baker
58 Chess Raymond Keene
Competition
Lucy Vickery
59 Crossword Doc
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
A terrible interviewee, p
Peace, love and Islam, p
Douglas Murray is an
associate editor of The Spectator
and the author of The Strange
Death of Europe: Immigration,
Identity, Islam. On p12 he
examines why Merkel has
no obvious successor.
Daniel Butler is the author
of Fungi Forays: How to Find
Edible Mushrooms. He has
been holding edible fungi
courses for more than 20 years,
and on p26 writes in praise
of picking mushrooms.
Frances Wilson, who writes
about Germaine Greer on p32,
is the author of several books,
most recently Guilty Thing:
a Life of Thomas De Quincey.
Jon Day, who reviews the
new Jonathan Coe on p36,
is a former judge of the Man
Booker prize and the author
of Cyclogeography. He teaches
at King’s College London.
Natalie Haynes, a writer
and broadcaster, ponders
the alt-right’s fondness for
the Classics on p34. Her most
recent novel is The Children
of Jocasta.
CONTRIBUTORS
One thing only saved my life. The
armed cracker, looking through his
telescopic lens, thought to himself:
‘Hey, it’s a bear – but it’s... smoking
a cigarette?’
Rod Liddle, p
You can’t contain a beast as big
as Germaine Greer on a canvas
this flat. Those who are cubist in
character need to be painted as such.
Frances Wilson, p
I miss the dirty words of my pre-PC
girlhood. Whenever I mention this
on Facebook, respected grown-ups
revel in r udeness as they name
their favourites: Nympho! Flasher!
Randy! Sex maniac!
Julie Burchill, p
Suckers for suckers, p