2018-11-03 The Spectator

ARTS

42 Tanya Gold

Bring back Kevin Spacey

44 Exhibitions

The true face of Islam

Ed Husain

45 Radio

BBC Sounds

Kate Chisholm

46 Theatre

A Very Very Very Dark Matter;

The Wild Duck

Lloyd Evans

47 Opera

Lucia di Lammermoor; Serse

Alexandra Coghlan

48 Television

The Little Drummer Girl;

Sally4Ever

James Walton

Cinema

Peterloo

Deborah Ross

LIFE

55 High life Taki

Low life Jeremy Clarke

56 Real life Melissa Kite

57 Wild life Aidan Hartley

Bridge Susanna Gross

AND FINALLY...

50 Notes on...

The Dengie Hundred

Fred Baker

58 Chess Raymond Keene

Competition

Lucy Vickery

59 Crossword Doc

60 No sacred cows

Toby Young

Battle for Britain

Michael Heath

61 Sport Roger Alton

Your problems solved

Mary Killen

62 Food Tanya Gold

Mind your language

Dot Wordsworth

LIFE

A terrible interviewee, p

Peace, love and Islam, p

Douglas Murray is an
associate editor of The Spectator
and the author of The Strange
Death of Europe: Immigration,
Identity, Islam. On p12 he
examines why Merkel has
no obvious successor.

Daniel Butler is the author

of Fungi Forays: How to Find

Edible Mushrooms. He has

been holding edible fungi

courses for more than 20 years,

and on p26 writes in praise

of picking mushrooms.

Frances Wilson, who writes

about Germaine Greer on p32,

is the author of several books,

most recently Guilty Thing:

a Life of Thomas De Quincey.

Jon Day, who reviews the

new Jonathan Coe on p36,

is a former judge of the Man

Booker prize and the author

of Cyclogeography. He teaches

at King’s College London.

Natalie Haynes, a writer

and broadcaster, ponders

the alt-right’s fondness for

the Classics on p34. Her most

recent novel is The Children

of Jocasta.

CONTRIBUTORS

One thing only saved my life. The

armed cracker, looking through his

telescopic lens, thought to himself:

‘Hey, it’s a bear – but it’s... smoking

a cigarette?’

Rod Liddle, p

You can’t contain a beast as big

as Germaine Greer on a canvas

this flat. Those who are cubist in

character need to be painted as such.

Frances Wilson, p

I miss the dirty words of my pre-PC

girlhood. Whenever I mention this

on Facebook, respected grown-ups

revel in r udeness as they name

their favourites: Nympho! Flasher!

Randy! Sex maniac!

Julie Burchill, p

Suckers for suckers, p