The Spectator - October 29, 2016

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BOOKS & ARTS


3 Leading article


7 Portrait of the Week


9 Diary Trump’s parents; immaturity
on migration; feline neuroses
Douglas Murray


10 Politics The missing opposition
James Forsyth


11 The Spectator’s Notes Turing,
Bishop Bell, and grey squirrels
Charles Moore


17 Rod Liddle Blame it on Pete Burns


20 Barometer Shakespeare,
tariffs, airports and teeth


22 From the archive A deadly silence


23 Ancient and modern
The Corbyn of ancient Athens


27 Matthew Parris Wilde variations


28 Hugo Rifkind The right not to bake


29 Letters Russia, climate change,
ravens and more squirrels


30 Any other business
From Big Bang to Brexodus
Martin Vander Weyer


Deborah Ross is away.


12 Le Pen’s long game
The Front National leader is running
rings around the mainstream right
Jonathan Fenby
13 André Mangeot ‘Icehouse’: a poem
14 Murder and politics
Rage, division and a friend’s death
Andrew Watts
18 ‘Hillary is a disaster!’
Camille Paglia’s presidential verdict
Emily Hill
20 Sweet sorrow
Why we’ll all miss the BBC Bake Off
Ysenda Maxtone Graham
22 Blinded with science
The crisis in peer review
Donna Laframboise
24 Too big not to fail
The troubled families programme
Danny Kruger

BOOKS
34 Daniel Swift Jonathan Swift,
by John Stubbs
36 Will Nicoll Between Truth and
Time, by Christine E. Evans
37 Philip Hensher
Kind of Blue, by Ken Clarke
38 Hermione Eyre
Mansions of Misery, by Jerry White
Maggie Fergusson
Ariel, by Derek Johns
40 Stephen Robinson Bridge Over
Blood River, by Kajsa Norman
41 Susan Hill The Dark Circle,
by Linda Grant
Laura Freeman Minds of Winter,
by Ed O’Loughlin
42 Julian Stannard ‘Bushel’: a poem
A.A. Gill The Ethical Carnivore,
by Louise Gray
43 Hugh Pearman The Language
of Cities, by Deyan Sudjic;
Vertical, by Stephen Graham

THE WEEK


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