The Spectator - October 29, 2016

was founded as a private nursing home, not for the likes of Lenny and Miriam, but then requisitioned by the NHS, although with t ...

BOOKS & ARTS Meaty matters A.A. Gill The Ethical Carnivore: My Year Killing to Eat by Louise Gray Bloomsbury, £16.99, pp. 32 ...

dism. It has an overwhelming vanity: not how did the dead bunny feel, but how did I feel having deaded the bunny? Everything is ...

BOOKS & ARTS ARTS SPECIAL Contours of the mind Maps reveal the psychology of their creators as much as they describe topogra ...

He had brought a large map representing the sea, Without the least vestige of land: And the crew were much pleased when they fou ...

BOOKS & ARTS there remains a very keen popular interest in mapping, coloured by a nostalgic sense of loss about a world the ...

John Duncan Fergusson probably painted this picture between 1904 and 1905, based on his setting: the terrace of the old Château ...

BOOKS & ARTS resented by the very same tweed ‘big pants’, with nothing but narrow ribbon braces, that I’d had photographed o ...

Sculpture March of the makers Niru Ratnam Tony Cragg Lisson Gallery, until 5 November Antony Gormley: Fit White Cube Bermondsey, ...

BOOKS & ARTS precariously looming works. Many seem to take one curvilinear form and twist it, repeat it and stack it until t ...

Exhibitions Going Dutch Laura Gascoigne Hercules Segers; Frans Post: Animals in Brazil Rijksmuseum, until 8 January 2017 Adriaen ...

BOOKS & ARTS Above: ‘Spider Monkey’, 1638–44, by Frans Post Left: ‘Road Skirting the Plateau, a River in the Distance’, c.16 ...

Opera A night at the circus Richard Bratby The Nose Royal Opera House, in rep until 9 November Billy Budd Opera North, touring u ...

BOOKS & ARTS Television The lying game James Delingpole ‘Adam Curtis believed that 200,000 Guardi- an readers watching BBC2 ...

Radio Identity crisis Kate Chisholm You may not listen to them every year. Or even to every lecture in the current series. But t ...

BOOKS & ARTS Theatre Sweet and sour Lloyd Evans A Pacifist’s Guide to the War on Cancer Dorfman, until 29 November The Red B ...

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Croatia and originally drawn from his family regi- ment, the 10th Hussars. The famous ban on whistling in the arcade dates from ...

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