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Manchester Square 5 CounterpointsHayek’sshockjock; Forgotten Muslims; Undrinkable vintages; Chelsea blues; Classical training; A Trollope for today 8 Columns Jurisprudence Joshua Rozenberg says judges must be politically independent 15 European Eye Mara Delius advocates old-style journalistic courage 16 On the contrary Lionel Shriver deplores American hypocrisy on immigration 17 The Outsider Douglas Murray accuses David Cameron of calculated ignorance on foreign policy 18 Living History Michael Burleigh remembers an unjustly forgotten war 20 Points East & West Emanuele Ottolenghi questions the ultimate aim of sanctions on Iran 21 Marketplace Tim Congdon explains how taxpayers will benefit from the banking crisis 22 Open Season Ruth Dudley Edwards defends three banished Catholic clerics 23 The Mole Our Labour insider sizes up the leadership contenders 24

Web Sightings Frances Weaver wonders whether WikiLeaks was right to release thousands of secret documents 25 Letters Toby Young on school selection; Robert Fox on defence cuts 31

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Speaker cornered Britain can benefit from Benedict George Weigel urges the UK to heed the embattled Pope 38 Dispatches Press freedom under threat Claire Berlinski in Turkey and R. W. Johnson in South Africa report on the muzzling of the media 26

Text Miriam Gross evokes her childhood in Jerusalem 70 Feature Radical Islam’s fellow-travellers Nick Cohen takes on Tariq Ramadan’s intellectual allies 46

Dialogue Staving off despair: on the use and abuse of pessimism for life Roger Scruton and Raymond Tallis discuss the human condition 32

Features Britain’s chance to reinvent Europe William Horsley outlines a strategy that could save the EU 42 Let’s keep throwing the rascals out Michael Pinto-Duschinsky shows that the Alternative Vote is no alternative to First Past the Post 44 CivilisationCritiqueJohnCottingham explains why we can’t just replace God with Nature 52

Books J. W. M. Thompson on State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974 by Dominic Sandbrook and Edward Heath: The Authorised Biography by Philip Ziegler; David Womersley on Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Biography by Adam Sisman; Conrad Leyser on Emperor of the West: Charlemagne and the Carolingian Empire by Hywel Williams; Melanie Phillips on Running Commentary: The Contentious Magazine that Transformed the Jewish Left into the Neoconservative Right by Benjamin Balint; and Tibor Fischer on The Misogynist by Piers Paul Read and Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes 56

Cosmos Mark Ronan hopes the spirit of Bletchley Park lives on 64

Television Nick Cohen says the BBC has lost the plot when it comes to drama 65

Music Jessica Duchen fears for the future of summer festivals 66

Art Michael Prodger profiles a pioneer with homicidal tendencies 67

Film Peter Whittle reviews the best of the new DVDs 68

Theatre Minette Marrin finds much still resonates in Danton’s Death 69

TextClive James New poems 74 Imagination Party Lines by Daisy Waugh; Whatever by Peter Blegvad: The Saga of Smit & Smule continues 76

Drawing Board Clive Head previews his forthcoming National Gallery exhibition 78

Overrated/Underrated Caroline Lucas by Julie Bindel Iain Duncan Smith by Tim Montgomerie 80 ChessDominic Lawson celebrates a Viking grandmaster’s marauding spirit 82

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