September 2009/£4.50/Issue 15

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A deadly veil of silence

Clive James and Nick Cohen denounce the apologists for murder and misogyny

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George Weidenfeld, Jonathan Sacks: The Jewish Century Lionel Shriver: Michael Jackson’s hyper-narrative Susan Hill and John Stein: Stretch our children’s minds Bryan Ward-Perkins: Rome’s decline and fall guys

Shmuel Bar/Mara Delius/R.W. Johnson/Ingo Schulze/Jonathan Bate/Daisy Waugh Allan Massie/John McEwan/Conrad Black/Peter Stanford/Dominic Lawson Ellen Alpsten/Tim Congdon/Roger Kimball/Robert Messenger/Caroline Moore

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