The Spectator - October 20, 2018
licking my wounds and wondering if I should sign up for pottery classes. But then journo friends started ringing to say they’d h ...
JAMES DELINGPOLE Hell hat h no f u r y like a n irate teenage girl faces! See their innocence and promise! They want guns banned ...
Vir t uous vice The rise of ethical decadence COSMO LANDESMAN I t hasn’t always been easy being a pro- gressive-minded man who p ...
the educational and the erotic become one. Even drugs are now sold with the imprima- tur of moral goodness. When I was a teen- a ...
relaxed its guidelines. In an episode from 1962, she looks like Audrey Hepburn but sounds like the young Queen as she watches a ...
LETTERS Light reading Sir: Peter Oborne (Notebook, October 13) writes that for ‘relaxation’ on his recent visit to Syria he read ...
Mark Palmer DURBAN NOTEBOOK N o one likes uncertainty and in Britain we’ve got more than our fair share. But spare a thought for ...
ANY OTHER BUSINESS| MARTIN VANDER WEYER Why I’m boycotting ‘Davos in the Desert’ action is in hand. Gavin Patterson — the BT chi ...
BOOKS & ARTS BOOKS W hat does it mea n to be a n America n? America is often seen to represent the search for something – wh ...
is eerily familiar: Joe McCarthy’s anti- communist crusade unleashed wild spirits. Conservative thinkers decried the establish- ...
BOOKS & ARTS Little women, big issues Lucy Mangan Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why it Still Matters ...
Manic creations Louis Amis Lost Empress: A Protest by Sergio De La Pava MacLehose Press, £20, pp. 640 American mass-incarceratio ...
BOOKS & ARTS ness or the avoidance of colour, and from his house to his hair he is daisy-white. He has moved to this remote ...
In cold blood George C. Herring Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy 1945–1975 by Max Hastings William Collins, £30, pp. 784 The 50th annive ...
BOOKS & ARTS An, a survivor of Dien Bien Phu and in 1964–1965 one of the first NVA regulars to trek down the then primitive ...
a major cultural figure, but here she is lam- entably relegated to the sidelines. Also, for some strange reason, the book’s firs ...
ing scholar and historian. His vivid record of these different worlds in some 4,000 often brilliant letters, published in 48 vol ...
tropes established by the novel. By the time of Walpole’s death in 1797, Strawberry Hill contained at least 4,000 objects, not c ...
BOOKS & ARTS Exhibitions All together now Martin Gayford Bruegel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, until 13 January 2019 ‘Ab ...
At the Kunsthistorisches Museum, ‘Christ carrying the Cross’ is displayed without its frame in a glass case, so you can get real ...
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