2019-08-10 The Spectator

ARTS

36 Lloyd Evans

Comedy gold from the Fringe

38 Exhibitions

A show about dogs, curated by dogs

Camilla Swift

39 Dance

Spartacus; Swan Lake

Laura Freeman

Radio

The Years that Changed

Britain Forever

Kate Chisholm

40 Music

Das Rheingold; LA Philharmonic/

Dudamel/Wang

Richard Bratby

41 Exhibitions 2

Artist Unknown

Martin Gayford

42 Cinema

Blinded by the Light

Jasper Rees

The listener

The Flaming Lips: King’s Mouth

Rod Liddle

LIFE

47 High life Taki

Low life Jeremy Clarke

48 Philip Hancock

‘Geronimo’: a poem

‘Parks and Recreation’: a poem

49 Real life Melissa Kite

Bridge Susanna Gross

AND FINALLY...

43 Notes on... Savannah

Victoria Lane

50 Chess Raymond Keene

Competition

Lucy Vickery

51 Crossword Smurf

52 No sacred cows

Toby Young

Battle for Britain

Michael Heath

53 Sport Roger Alton

Your problems solved

Mary Killen

54 Food Tanya Gold

Mind your language

Dot Wordsworth

LIFE

The bohemian high life, p

Lightweight, p

Nicky Haslam is an
interior designer and amateur
cabaret performer. His
notebook, and his advice
to Boris Johnson on styling
Downing Street, is on p24.

Hugh Thomson is a travel

writer and explorer who has

led expeditions in Peru, Bhutan

and Afghanistan. On p32, he

discovers the archaeological

significance of the Fens.

Richard Davenport-Hines

is a historian who has also

written about W.H. Auden

and John Maynard Keynes.

He reviews a history of

creative spaces on p34.

Anna Aslanyan is a writer

and translator. On p35, she

reviews the latest novel from

Yoko Ogawa, the prize-

winning Japanese writer

praised by Hilary Mantel.

David Crystal is a writer

and linguist specialising in

the evolution of the English

language. On p35, he enjoys a

celebration of the semicolon.

CONTRIBUTORS

I dislike the Oxford comma

but that is mere prejudice.

Jacob Rees-Mogg, p

My ideal beach would be one

with the Famous Five on it.

We’d picnic on ginger pop

and buns and leave no litter.

Michael Heath, p

The Parthenon’s subtleties

are many: it arches, leans,

swells and breathes, and it also

served as a place to make love

in when I was a youngster.

Ta k i, p

Not Trump’s fault, p