July/August 2011 Issue 34

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Manchester Square 11 An archbishop spinning out of control Counterpoints Osborne’s uncharitable tax raid; Novel idea; Crossroads; Brooks’s brothers; Farewell to M.F. Husain; Mawkish Miliband 13 Letters War of the Roses; Dress coda; City slackers; Enduring Guv 18

Columns Points East & West Emanuele Ottolenghi says the Arab Spring risks becoming a long cold winter 22 Living History Michael Burleigh looks at life in the Islamic Republic of Tower Hamlets 23 European Eye Mara Delius laments German hysteria over beansprouts and nuclear plants 24 The Outsider Douglas Murray denounces our reliance on new media 25 Marketplace Tim Congdon proposes a makeover for the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street 26 Jurisprudence Joshua Rozenberg weighs up the privacy superinjunction debate 27

Dialogue Peter Singer and Nigel Biggar debate the value of human and animal life 28 Features The Holocaust: excusing the inexcusable Michael Pinto-Duschinsky replies to the defenders of the university funder and Nazi collaborator Alfred Toepfer 34

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Iliad! Clive James excavates a Homeric satire on Hollywood’s heroes 55

On the contrary Lionel Shriver shuns Cannes glamour in favour of her laptop 20

Still haunted by the ghost of Mao Jonathan Mirsky says China’s democratisation has a long way to go 40 China’s downtrodden sunflower seeds George Walden questions the art but not the courage of the dissident Ai Weiwei 42 The lost art of old England James Hannam relishes the reliquaries at the British Museum 44 Bloomsbury’s teenage terrorist Lesley Chamberlain explores the motives of the writer David Garnett 46 What happens when the band stops playing? Norman Lebrecht puts the case for symphony orchestras 48

Civilisation Unending journey Justin Marozzi believes that travel writing has plenty of life left in it 74 Benedict XVI and the future of the West George Weigel embraces the rebirth of Evangelical Catholicism 84

Books Eric Ormsby on Dante in Love by A.N. Wilson; Piers Paul Read on G.K. Chesterton: A Biography by Ian Ker; Tibor Fischer on James Joyce: A Biography by Gordon Bowker; Noel Malcolm on The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution by Francis Fukuyama; Nichi Hodgson on Love: A History by Simon May and All About Love: Anatomy of An Unruly Emotion by Lisa Appignanesi; Simon Scott Plummer on A Pilgrim in Spain by Christopher Howse 67 Music Jessica Duchen welcomes a new generation of conductors 78 Art Michael Prodger enjoys the sublime and the religious at the National Gallery 79 Television Nick Cohen derides BBC4’s programme on Amnesty International 80 Film Peter Whittle endures two moralising documentaries 81 Theatre Anne McElvoy revels in Richard Bean’s Goldoni revival 82 Cosmos Mark Ronan lauds Euclid, master of mathematics 83 Text Two short stories on fatherhood Allan Massie Old Man Failing 59 Joseph Epstein Dad’s Gay 62

Drawing Board Nicholas Garland New paintings and woodcuts 90 Overrated/Underrated Richard Layard/Ken Dodd by Michael Mosbacher and Robert Low 94 Chess Dominic Lawson celebrates the craft of a Cuban chess conquistador 96 Wine Saintsbury shares a glass with Dr Johnson 97 Imagination Party Lines by Daisy Waugh; Whatever by Peter Blegvad: The Saga of Smit & Smule concludes 98

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