March 2011 Issue 30

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Manchester Square 5 Counterpoints Printing money; Worship is not enough; Student anti-Semitism; Turkey’s party poopers; Tiger mum talk; Newsroom 101 8 Letters Defence reviewed; Chesterton’s prejudice; Governor’s lament; Muslims misrepresented; The sanctity of life; Martyr missed? 12

Columns The Outsider Douglas Murray says the government is financing Islamist extremism while purporting to fight it 14 Living History Michael Burleigh examines the CIA’s involvement in Egyptian politics 15 On the contrary Lionel Shriver warns of the perils of civilian justice 16 Points East & West Emanuele Ottolenghi demolishes a potent Arab myth 18 European Eye Mara Delius thinks it’s time German women stood up for themselves 19 Jurisprudence Joshua Rozenberg considers the chances of Mubarak facing charges in a foreign court 21 Dialogue Is China really a threat to us? Niall Ferguson and Dambisa Moyo discuss the challenge to the West from the East 22 Features Gordon Brown’s Recessional Tim Congdon assesses the damage caused by the ex-PM’s worst blunder 38

No he can’t What next for Egypt? John Bolton takes the Obama Administration to task for its mishandling of the crisis in Cairo 32 Dawn chorus in Tahrir Square Shiraz Maher reports from Cairo on the Egyptian Revolution 28

Features Give them the facts Katharine Birbalsingh says children need knowledge, not “skills” 36

Critique The drumming of an army Clive James on the rain in Oz 55

Theatre Global yawning Anne McElvoy watches green shoots (and dead wood) in two plays about climate change 67

Animal rights don’t justify human wrongs Julie Bindel exposes the hypocrisy at the heart of Peta 42 A Hungarian democrat takes on the old guard Tibor Fischer defends the embattled Magyar PM, Viktor Orbán 44 The man who drew the fatal Durand Line David Rose looks at the disastrous legacy of the British official who fixed the Afghan-Pakistan frontier 48

Civilisation Books Alev Scott on Turkey: A Short History by Norman Stone; Robert Fox on The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, its Regions and their Peoples by David Gilmour; Melanie Phillips on Jerusalem: The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore; David Conway on Unnatural: The Heretical Idea of Making People by Philip Ball; and Christopher Fildes on The Bank of England: 1950s to 1979 by Forrest Capie 59

Film Peter Whittle says Never Let Me Go never gets going 64 Television Nick Cohen salutes a superb Danish crime drama 65

Music Jessica Duchen asks whether for composers “late” means great 66

Art Michael Prodger examines watercolour—a very British medium 68 Text Alan Bekhor God, the West and the scholastic mentality 70 Hamish Robinson New poem 75 Drawing Board Michael Daley Caricatures from his new exhibition Portraits under pressure 76 Overrated/Underrated Gustave Flaubert/Willa Cather by Joseph Epstein 78 Chess Dominic Lawson reports on the comeback of a former child prodigy 80 Wine Saintsbury Our new wine columnist on Jane Austen’s “very good spirits” 81 Imagination Party Lines by Daisy Waugh; Whatever by Peter Blegvad: The Saga of Smit & Smule continues 82

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