The Spectator

17 May 2008

Features:

• Labour’s best hope? Fraser Nelson A profile of Jam es Purnell, the Work and Pensions Secretary
• I never want to be as insecure as Olivier Tim Walker An interview with the actress Greta Scacchi
• Secret letters from Jonestown Barry Isaacson It is 30 years since Jim Jones’s death cult massacre
• C’mon Cherie, give Gordon a break Rod Liddle The New Labour memoirs are appalling acts of treachery
• Leading article
• Diary Dennis Sewell
• Politics Anthony Browne
• The Spectator’s Notes
• Diary of a Notting Hill Nobody
• Flash Gordon
• Global warning
• Letters
• Shared opinion Hugo Rifkind
• And another thing Paul Johnson
• Mind your language
• Microsoft’s Yahoo bid Dav id Crow
• Any other business Martin Vander Weyer
• Sam L eith: Amis & Son, by Neil Powell
• Alan Judd: On Human Rights, by James Griffin
• Cressida Connolly: The Three of Us, by Julia Blackburn
• Ian Garrick Mason: Worlds at War, by Anthony Pagden
• John Fuller: ‘Flotsam’: a poem
• Jonathan Keates: The Liquid Continent, by Nicholas W oodsworth
• John Michell: Physics of the Impossible, by Mich io Kaku
• John McEwen: Art in Exile, by Douglas Hall
• Allan Massie: Life & letters
• John Whitworth: ‘I’ll be True’: a poem
• Martin Gayford questions the point of art exhibitions
• Exhibitions 1: Blood on Paper: The Art of the Book Andrew Lambirth
• William Feaver on the Pitmen Painters
• Liverpool Mark Glazebrook
• Saleroom Susan Moore
• Exhibitions 2: Liliane Lijn: Stardust John Spurling
• Italy’s Divisionist painters Laura Gascoigne
• Cinema: Caramel Deborah Ross
• Theatre: King Lear; That Face; Beau Jest Lloyd Evans
• Dance: Royal Ballet Triple Bill Giannandrea Poesio
• Music Peter Phillips
• Opera: Roberto Alagna; Simon Boccanegra; The Merry Widow Michael Tanner
• Radio Kate Chisholm
• Television James Delingpole
• The turf Robin Oakley
• High life Taki
• Low life Jeremy Clarke
• Slow life Alex James
• Bridge Janet de Botton
• What’s in a name? Matthew Dennison
• Sacred heights Simon Courtauld
• Wine Club Simon Hoggart
• Status anxiety Toby Young
• The Wiki Man Rory Sutherland
• Your problems solved Mary Killen
• An actor’s life Joan Collins