BOOKS & ARTS
3 Leading article
7 Portrait of the Week
9 Diary The doctor reckons
I’m not drinking enough
Raymond Briggs
10 Politics Trump’s Syria policy is
good news for Britain
James Forsyth
11 The Spectator’s Notes
The painter and poet David Jones
Charles Moore
14 Matthew Parris Why I admire
the Church of England
16 Barometer Cabin fodder, the
living wage and chemical weapons
21 Ancient and modern
George ‘Five-jobs’ Osborne
23 Rod Liddle Appropriate force
24 Mary Wakefield Taking on gangs
25 Letters Grauniad Island, tall stories
and the downside of side-saddle
26 Any other business Banks are still
plagued by mischief and menace
Martin Vander Weyer12 The Benedict Option
By embracing their minority status,
Christians can revive their faith
Rod Dreher
13 Fleur Adcock
‘Fox-Light’: a poem
15 Putin’s Syria problem
Russia’s president discovers the
drawbacks of intervention
Owen Matthews
16 Side-saddle is sexy
It’s fun, and it looks good
Simon Barnes
18 Is the BBC biased?
The question debated
Charles Moore and Nick Robinson
21 Do you know a flake fatale?
The ladies who forget to lunch
Cosmo Landerson
22 Trump, the emptiest mind
Howard Jacobson on the
US President
Tanya GoldBOOKS
28 Jane Rye
The Surreal Life of Leonora
Carrington, by Joanna Moorhead;
The Debutante and Other Stories,
by Leonora Carrington
30 Ysenda Maxtone Graham
That Was the Midweek That Was,
by Libby Purves
32 Stephen Glover
Mail Men, by Adrian Addison
33 David Crane
Resolution, by David Rutland
and Emma Ellis
34 Susan Owens
British Art, by Sam Smiles
35 Tiffany Jenkins
Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits,
by Chip Colwell
Oliver Balch
The Village News, by Tom Fort
37 Steven Poole
To Be a Machine, by
Mark O’ConnellTHE WEEK
When modernism
met the church, p38 Why side-saddle is freedom, pFemme-enfant, pCover by Morten Morland. Drawings by Michael Heath, Castro, Phil Disley, Grizelda, Geoff Thompson, Percival, RGJ, Nick Newman, Mike Turner, Bernie, Paul Wood.
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