2018-11-03 The Spectator

BOOKS & ARTS

3 Leading article

6 Portrait of the Week

9 Diary The lost joy of dirty words

Julie Burchill

10 Politics The Tory plan to spend

Corbyn’s inheritance

James Forsyth

11 The Spectator’s Notes

Bring on the next Black Wednesday

Charles Moore

17 Rod Liddle

How smoking saved my life

20 Barometer Caravans, 50p pieces,

and depressing social media

23 James Delingpole Why do our

sweet boys behave in stupid ways?

25 Mary Wakefield Sometimes

women need a good sheikh

29 Letters Political vitriol, Desert Island

Discs, and defending Diane Abbott

30 Any other business Has Philip

Hammond saved the high street?

Martin Vander Weyer

12 Europe’s empty throne

Angela Merkel is on her way out

— but who will take over?

Douglas Murray

13 C.J. Driver

‘An Old Man and His Wife’: a poem

14 How to trap a journalist

Hacks love winning awards —

and lobbyists know it

Nick Cohen

19 Losing the plot

MPs now do all their conspiring

on WhatsApp – and get nowhere

Katy Balls

20 Hostages to fortune

Trump’s sanctions on Iran seem

unlikely to succeed

John R. Bradley

24 Can’t pay, shouldn’t pay

The loan charge is extremely unjust

Iain Dale

26 Picky eaters

The right to forage is an ancient law

Daniel Butler

BOOKS

32 Frances Wilson

Germaine, by Elizabeth Kleinhenz

34 Natalie Haynes

Not All Dead White Men, by

Donna Zuckerberg

A.N. Wilson

Francis, by Ann Wroe

35 Laura Freeman

Little, by Edward Carey

36 Jon Day

Middle England, by Jonathan Coe

Tim Hopkins

‘Looking Forward’: a poem

Steven Poole

Milk of Paradise, by Lucy Inglis

37 Daniel Hahn

on writing and language

38 Houman Barekat

Insomnia, by Marina Benjamin

39 Christopher Bray

The Vampire, by Nick Groom

40 Claire Kohda Hazelton

Unsheltered, by Barbara Kingsolver

Nigel Jones

on Napoleon

41 Juliet Nicolson

The Light in the Dark,

by Horatio Clare

THE WEEK

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Happy 110th birthday, p

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