The Spectator - 07.09.2019

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BOOKS & ARTS

3 Leading article

6 Portrait of the Week

7 Diary The Spectator and me

Rory Stewart

9 The Spectator’s Notes

The wrong moment to go

grouse shooting

Charles Moore

11 Peter Bland

‘Help’: a poem

12 Barometer Gathering storms,

teachers’ pay, popular attractions

15 Rod Liddle Magic Grandpa may

win the battle but lose the war

16 Ancient and modern All the rage

23 James Delingpole How I beat

the autumn blues

28 Letters Helping the homeless,

Brexit logic, Prince Harry’s choices

29 Any other business

The PPI scandal ends — but the

nuisance calls will keep coming

Martin Vander Weyer

10 All to play for

Boris Johnson’s great election gamble

James Forsyth

12 Europe’s missing heart

Britain must leave the EU now

William Shawcross

14 I can topple that

The Queen knows more about

genuine coups than anyone

Robert Hardman

16 Gatekeeper anxiety

The serfs are thinking for themselves

— and their betters don’t like it

Stephen Daisley

20 In the balance

Ipso’s leaked guidelines on

Islamophobia mark a sinister shift

Will Heaven

21 Double standards

Regressive demands on the media

only hurt minorities

Trevor Phillips

22 Fair game

Celebrity outrage over trophy

hunting is missing the point

Patrick Galbraith

24 Village fate

Moving to the country was a mistake

Louise Perry

27 Letter from Algeria

William Dalrymple

BOOKS

30 Craig Raine

The Lives of Lucian Freud: Youth,

by William Feaver

32 Peter Parker

Lucian Freud: Herbarium,

by Giovanni Aloi

33 Clare Mulley

Our Man in New York,

by Henry Hemming

Jeff Noon

on recent crime fiction

34 Marcus Berkmann

on Neville Cardus

35 Allan Mallinson

A Peer Among Princes,

by Philip Grant

36 Oliver Balch

Dopeworld,

by Niko Vorobyov

38 Daniel Swift

Chastise, by Max Hastings

39 James Russell

‘A Shot Rang Out’: a poem

Emily Hill

Travel Light, Move Fast,

by Alexandra Fuller

THE WEEK

Freudian slips, p

The new figurativism, p

‘Five minutes is a long

time in politics’, p

Cover by Morten Morland. Drawings by Michael Heath, Castro, J. Parker, Grizelda, Bernie, Percival, Robert Thompson, Christian Adams, RGJ, Nick Newman, Wilbur.

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