The Sunday Times Magazine - UK (2021-11-21)

The Sunday Times Magazine • 3

NOVEMBER 21 2021

22

COVER STORY: THE RISE OF XI

Who is the Chinese dictator

Xi Jinping? Michael Sheridan

on the man behind the myth

50

HOW TO RESCUE A DOG

Andrew Cotter on rehoming

lockdown hounds. Plus

readers’ stories of salvation

36

HELP ME! I HIT MY WIFE

Rosie Kinchen reports on a

phone line that helps abusive

men change their behaviour

44

REAL BRITANNIA

A celebration of the best

documentary photography

from the 1960s onwards

54

HIP HIP, A TRAY!

Rosie Birkett’s quick, easy

and sensationally tasty

midweek traybakes

COVER: SHUTTERSTOCK, ALAMY. THIS PAGE: ELA BIALKOWSKA / OKNOSTUDIO, DAVE SINCLAIR, REX© Times Newspapers Ltd, 2021. Published and licensed by Times Newspapers Ltd, 1 London Bridge Street, London SE1 9GF (020 7782 5000). Printed by Prinovis UK Ltd, Liverpool. Not to be sold separately

Plus P5 Matt Rudd^ | P6 Relative Values^ | P61 Table Talk^ | P64 Wine^ | P66 Jeremy Clarkson^ | P74 A Life in the Day: Candice Carty-Williams

IS JEFF KOONS OVERBLOWN?

Kirsty Lang meets the world’s most expensive living artist, page 10