BOOKS & ARTS
3 Leading article
6 Portrait of the Week
9 Diary Trump’s America
Matt Ridley
10 Politics Melania’s message
Roger Kimball
11 The Spectator’s Notes
Most crimes are hate crimes
Charles Moore
14 Ancient and modern
Death and the Romans
17 Rod Liddle If we are all victims,
there are no victims at all
21 James Delingpole
Hell hath no fury like a teenage girl
22 Barometer
How soon do royal babies arrive?
25 Letters Ireland and Brexit,
penguins and modernism
26 Durban notebook
Mark Palmer
27 Any other business Why I’m
boycotting ‘Davos in the Desert’
Martin Vander Weyer
12 The Irish question
The border has become the
defining issue of Brexit
James Forsyth
13 Ian Harrow
‘The Quiet Life’: a poem
14 Why French kids don’t get fat
It’s not the ‘Mediterranean diet’
Gavin Mortimer
18 Fact cats
How Bellingcat got the Skripal scoop
Owen Matthews
20 On being sacked
I feel bruised, but not surprised
Lynn Barber
22 Virtuous vice
Onanists are ‘empowering’ women
Cosmo Landesman
24 The steady ship
Happy 60th birthday, Blue Peter
Damian Thompson
BOOKS
28 Tim Stanley
Capitalism in America, by Adrian
Wooldridge and Alan Greenspan;
These Truths, by Jill Lepore
30 Lucy Mangan
Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy,
by Anne Boyd Rioux
31 Louis Amis
Lost Empress,
by Sergio De La Pava
Anne Margaret Daniel
Killing Commendatore,
by Haruki Murakami
32 Stephen Romer
‘Ravello’: a poem
Andrew Taylor
Tombland, by C.J. Sansom
33 George C. Herring
Vietnam, by Max Hastings
34 Alastair Smart
Josef Albers,
by Charles Darwent
35 Stuart Kelly
The Scottish Clearances,
by T.M. Devine
THE WEEK
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