January/February 2012 Issue 39

Manchester Square Prophets without honours 5

Counterpoints La dolce vita; A gift for Greece; Unfinished symphony; Crying Wolf; Powell’s pen pal; Fussball crazy 8

Letters 14

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Columns Party Lines Daisy Waugh tunes into maternal anxiety about jobs for British kids 15 Free at last Katharine Birbalsingh is enthused by Toby Young’s conversion 16 The Outsider’s Diary Douglas Murray is dazed by his US speaking tour but glad to return to London 17 European Eye Mara Delius visits the Caribbean to find a very un-Germanic attitude to taxes 20 On the Contrary Lionel Shriver is now a dab hand at derivatives and credit default swaps 21 Points East & West Emanuele Ottolenghi challenges facile excuses for anti-Semitism 22 Living History Michael Burleigh selects his favourite history books, old and new 23 Marketplace Tim Congdon says the eurozone shambles is a huge setback to EU integration 24 Jurisprudence Joshua Rozenberg sees the Lord Chief Justice admit his bemusement 25

Dispatches

Andrew Roberts in New York says US philanthropy shames the politicians 26 Anthony Loyd in Kabul detects signs of hope in Afghanistan 28

Civilisation Critique Novelists at arms Paul Johnson assesses the best British and American writers of World War II 59

Books Noel Malcolm on The Wartime Journals by Hugh Trevor-Roper; Andrew Roberts on All Souls and the Wider World edited by S.J.D. Green and Peregrine Horden; George Walden on Martin Amis: A Biography by Richard Bradford; David Barrett on A Point of View by Clive James; Eric Ormsby on The Bees by Carol Ann Duffy, and other poetry 65

David Cameron’s Olympian moment Iain Martin asks if the PM will have the courage to take on the EU 38 An Islamist Winter? Amir Taheri believes the Arab Spring is not a total victory for Islamists—yet 32 ‘Over me, my father’s shadow hovers’ Miriam Gross recalls her dealings with Stalin’s daughter Svetlana 52 The Limits of Secularism Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks shows how religion can enrich modern society 72

Features The secret of cheap energy: fire Chris Huhne Patrick Heren deplores a creeping process of politicisation 36 Have women lost the will to marry? Hephzibah Anderson explains why so many modern women stay single 42 Forced marriages dishonour Britain Julie Bindel criticises our cowardice on a mainly Muslim practice 44 We only pretend to defend freedom of speech against censorship Nick Cohen blasts lily-livered liberals 46 The Dreyfus Affair and the birth of intellectual protest Piers Paul Read explores the background of the controversy that split France 48 Lieutenant Gaddafi in Swinging Sixties’ London Michael Cockerell unearths an unlikely tourist (left) 54

Text New Poetry Robert Conquest 78 Alan Brownjohn 82

Critics Music Norman Lebrecht thinks the cuts can benefit the arts 84

Art Michael Prodger enjoys a Continental show at Tate Britain 86

Television Nick Cohen explains why ITV’s golden couple had to go 87

Film Peter Whittle hopes Lady Thatcher never sees The Iron Lady 88

Theatre Anne McElvoy laughs at The Ladykillers but not at Lenny Henry 90 Drawing Board Matthew Carr Portraits and nudes 92

Overrated/Underrated Frank Furedi/Charles Murray by Michael Mosbacher and David Green 94

Chess Dominic Lawson resurrects the Tartar terminator 96

Wine Saintsbury swigs a Swift glass with the great Irish satirist 97 Culture & Anarchy Simon Heffer stands up for unjustly neglected British composers 98

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