On their Ed, p9 and p17

THE WEEK

3 Leading article 7 Portrait of the Week 9 Diary Andrew Gimson 10 Politics James Forsyth 11 The Spectator’s Notes 13 Barometer 14 Ancient and modern 17 Rod Liddle 27 Matthew Parris 28 James Delingpole 30 Letters 32 Any other business Martin Vander Weyer

Wildlife to watch out for, p59

12 Boris for prime minister I bet £15,000 on it, and I still think it’ll happen. Here’s how Toby Young 14 The hacking of the editor Why would my former colleagues want to listen to my voicemail? Kelvin MacKenzie 18 ‘The euro has no exits’ An interview with William Hague

James Forsyth 20 How to save the economy

Why George Osborne needs an income-tax holiday Peter Jay 22 Gay rites

Same-sex marriage is a sound conservative policy Douglas Murray 24 A press lord’s notebook Evgeny Lebedev

BOOKS & ARTS

Books 34 Jonathan Sumption All Hell Let

Loose, by Max Hastings 36 Leanda de LisleWinter King:

The Dawn ofTudor England,by Thomas Penn Robert Chandler Is That a Fish In your Ear?, by David Bellos 37 Lloyd Evans Julian Assange:

The Unauthorised Autobiography 38 Matthew Ridley Survivors,

by Richard Fortey 39 Alistair Horne Losing Small Wars,

by Frank Ledwige 40 Susan Hill Enthusiasms,

by Mark Girouard 41 Charles Cumming The Fear Index,

by Robert Harris Otto Saumarez Smith

Beyond the Tower: A History of East London, by John Marriott 42 Bookends Marcus Berkmann

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the spectator | 1 October 2011 | www.spectator.co.uk Oh no! We’re in a Mike Leigh play, p48

Economics for a harsh climate, p20

Ceci n’est pas un proper art gallery, p45

Arts 43 Interview Caroline Quentin

Lloyd Evans 45 Exhibitions Camulodunum; Tricia

Gillman: Stepping Stones Andrew Lambirth 46 Opera The Passenger

Michael Tanner 48 Theatre When Did you Last See y Mother?; Grief Lloyd Evans 50 Dance Jewels; 6000 Miles Away;

Drought and Rain Giannandrea Poesio 51 Music Michael Henderson 53 Cinema The Debt

Deborah Ross 54 Radio Kate Chisholm 55 Television Simon Hoggart Culture notes Ed Rex

LIFE

Travel 57 Eastern Cape memories Janice Warman 58 Swimming with sharks Tremayne Carew Pole 59 An alternative ‘Big Five’ Taffeta Gray Life 63 High life Taki Low life Jeremy Clarke 64 Real life Melissa Kite 65 The turf Robin Oakley Bridge Janet de Botton

And finaly . . . 66 Chess Raymond Keene 67 Competition; Crossword 68Status anxiety Toby Young Dave Michael Heath 69 Sport Roger Alton Your problems solved Mary Killen 70 Food Tanya Gold Mind your language Dot Wordsworth

I think we most of us feel that now, don’t we? Shuddery dread, which we strive to stifle with hot baths, or G&Ts, or thoughts about how beautiful our children are James Delingpole, p28

The closing scene in Mike Leigh’s new play Grief is as replete with dread and menace as anything Hitchcock ever produced Lloyd Evans, p48

One of the fish was floating upside down. I had dreaded this more than anything. Please, God, let them both go together… Melissa Kite, p64

Contributors

Toby Young read PPE at Brasenose College, Oxford, from 1982 to 1986; Boris Johnson read classics at Balliol College, Oxford, from 1982 to 1987. Kelvin MacKenzie is a columnist for the Daily Mail. He edited the Sun from 1981 to 1994.

the spectator | 1 October 2011 | www.spectator.co.uk

Douglas Murray is associate director of the Henry Jackson Society. He is the author of Bosie: a Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas and Neoconservatism: Why We Need It.

Alistair Horne is a historian and writer. His autobiography, But What Do You Actually Do?, was published last month. Susan Hill’s sixth Simon Serrailler mystery, The Betrayal of Trust, is out next week.

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