The Spectator - October 20, 2018

BOOKS & ARTS

3 Leading article

6 Portrait of the Week

9 Diary Trump’s America

Matt Ridley

10 Politics Melania’s message

Roger Kimball

11 The Spectator’s Notes

Most crimes are hate crimes

Charles Moore

14 Ancient and modern

Death and the Romans

17 Rod Liddle If we are all victims,

there are no victims at all

21 James Delingpole

Hell hath no fury like a teenage girl

22 Barometer

How soon do royal babies arrive?

25 Letters Ireland and Brexit,

penguins and modernism

26 Durban notebook

Mark Palmer

27 Any other business Why I’m

boycotting ‘Davos in the Desert’

Martin Vander Weyer

12 The Irish question

The border has become the

defining issue of Brexit

James Forsyth

13 Ian Harrow

‘The Quiet Life’: a poem

14 Why French kids don’t get fat

It’s not the ‘Mediterranean diet’

Gavin Mortimer

18 Fact cats

How Bellingcat got the Skripal scoop

Owen Matthews

20 On being sacked

I feel bruised, but not surprised

Lynn Barber

22 Virtuous vice

Onanists are ‘empowering’ women

Cosmo Landesman

24 The steady ship

Happy 60th birthday, Blue Peter

Damian Thompson

BOOKS

28 Tim Stanley

Capitalism in America, by Adrian

Wooldridge and Alan Greenspan;

These Truths, by Jill Lepore

30 Lucy Mangan

Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy,

by Anne Boyd Rioux

31 Louis Amis

Lost Empress,

by Sergio De La Pava

Anne Margaret Daniel

Killing Commendatore,

by Haruki Murakami

32 Stephen Romer

‘Ravello’: a poem

Andrew Taylor

Tombland, by C.J. Sansom

33 George C. Herring

Vietnam, by Max Hastings

34 Alastair Smart

Josef Albers,

by Charles Darwent

35 Stuart Kelly

The Scottish Clearances,

by T.M. Devine

THE WEEK

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