CONTENTS CONTENTS

THE WEEK

Leading article 3

Portrait of the week 7

Diary Geoffrey Wheatcroft 9

Politics PeterOborne 10

The Blairs 17

Mind your language 20

Win a weekend at the Ritz 25

Letters 26

Another voice MatthewParris

27

City and Suburban Christopher Fildes

28

And another thing Paul Johnson 29

Invasion of the New Europeans Anthony Browne Many more have arrived than the government predicted 12

Misery of the Polish newcomers Mary Wakefield 13

The enemy of liberal cant A.N. Wilson Remembering Michael Wharton, the great conservative satirist 14

Osama doesn’t matter any more Mark Steyn OnlyDemocrats and Europeans will be fooled by the truce offer 16

Instrument of terror William Cash The Devon farmer who owns Hitler’s red telephone 18

Reefer madness Ross Clark Cannabis is not harmless — legalisation would be wrong 20

It could be him Sholto Byrnes Chris Huhne, second favourite in the Lib Dem race

22

Sven’s seven deadly sins Rod Liddle The truth about why the England football manager had to go 24

ARTS

Andrew Lambirth on Edwina Leapman and Richard Long 49

Opera:La Traviata Michael Tanner

50

Music Robin Holloway

52

Theatre: Sejanus, His Fall; The Late Henry Moss; Factory Girls Lloyd Evans 54

Cinema:Munich Mark Steyn

54

Radio Michael Vestey

56

Television Simon Hoggart

57

BOOKS

Philip Hensher:For Lust of Knowing, by Robert Irwin 41

Kate Chisholm:The Night Watch, by Sarah Waters 42

Ian Garrick Mason:A War Like No Other, by Victor Davis Hanson 43

David Ekserdjian:Sir Thomas Lawrence, by Michael Levey 44

Allan Massie:Lord Cockburn: the Letters, edited by Alan Bell 45

Oliver Rackham:The Secret Life of Trees, by Colin Tudge 46

Diana Hendry:Kept, by D.J. Taylor 46

M.R.D. Foot:Those Who Trespass Against Us, by Countess Carolina Lanckoronska 47

Nicholas Kenyonon Mozart 47

INVESTMENT SPECIAL Investing in a moral maze Patrick Hosking 31 A Day to look forward to Ian Cowie 34 A slice of a shrinking pie Matthew Vincent 35 Precious doorstops Merryn Somerset-Webb 38

Charles Moore is away.

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LIFE

The turf Robin Oakley

58

Food for thought Simon Courtauld

59

High life Taki

60

Low life Jeremy Clarke

61

Bridge Susanna Gross

61

Wine Club Special promotion Simon Hoggart

63

Chess Raymond Keene

64

Competition; Crossword 64, 65

Sport Frank Keating

71

Your problems solved Mary Killen 71

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