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The case for Cameron

Diary Irwin Stelzer

Politics James Forsyth

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A Tudor mystery unravels Leanda de Lisle What really happened to Lady Jane Grey’s little sister

Dave Michael Heath

Mind your language

Diary of a Notting Hill Nobody

Letters

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Bringing up baby Kim Levine British childcare is paranoid and joyless compared to Italian

The trouble with tea parties Daniel McCarthy Grass-roots activism rarely influences government

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Another voice Matthew Parris

A question of art Paul Johnson

Any other business Martin Vander Weyer

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‘If we have souls, then so do chimps’ Freddy Gray A conversation with the primatologist Jane Goodall

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A very Catholic education John McEntee There were many kinds of abuse in schools in 1950s Ireland

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Ancient & modern

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Gay couples, B&Bs, aliens and sheep Rod Liddle And why the real debate is always stifled

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Arts Marianne Gray talks to Debbie Reynolds, one of the last of Hollywood’s Golden Era

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Exhibitions: Richard Hamilton: Modern Moral Matters Andrew Lambirth

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Opera: Götterdämmerung

Michael Henderson

Opera: Angels in America

Michael Tanner

Cinema: The Infidel

Deborah Ross

Theatre: London Assurance; Bedroom Farce

Lloyd Evans

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Pop

Marcus Berkmann

Television

Simon Hoggart

Radio

Kate Chisholm

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Books Anita Brookner: Parisians, by Graham Robb

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Gilbert Adair: A Hundred or More Hidden Things, by Mark Griffin

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Robert Salisbury: Back from the Brink, by Peter Snowden

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Alan Judd: The Cracked Bell, by Tristram Riley-Smith

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David Willetts: Ill Fares the Land, by Tony Judt

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Andro Linklater: The Forgotten Highlander, by Alistair Urquhart

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Leanda de Lisle: Vietnam, by Bill Hayton

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Allan Massie: Life and letters

Elaine Feinstein: ‘Wartime Leicester’: a poem

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‘Isn’t parliament dissolute enough?’

Cover by Jonathan Cusick (with apologies to the Labour party). Drawings by Michael Heath, Castro, Paul Lowe, Stephen Garrett, Robert Thompson, Colin Wheeler, Mazurke, Mike Williams, McLachlan, Len, Holland, Adam Singleton, Geoff Thompson, Bernie and Nick Newman. Charles Moore is away.

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Life Motoring

Alan Judd

High life

Taki

Low life Jeremy Clarke

Real life Melissa Kite

Bridge Janet de Botton

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And finaly . . . Chess Raymond Keene

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Competition; Crossword

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Status anxiety Toby Young

The Wiki man Rory Sutherland

Your problems solved Mary Killen

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