Something like a dame, p54

Jane mail, p45

THE WEEK

3 Leading article 7 Portrait of the Week 9 Diary Angela Huth 10 Politics Gerald Warner 11 The Spectator’s Notes 14 Barometer 17 Rod Liddle 19 Ancient and modern 27 Matthew Parris 28 James Delingpole 30 Letters 33 Any other business Martin Vander Weyer

Deborah Ross is away.

12 A new deal for Britain Owen Paterson says its time for

Cameron to renegotiate our relationship with Europe James Forsyth 13 Europe: the bomb in the living room Tim Montgomerie 14 Losing my bottle Waitrose won’t trust me with Chablis

Sophia Waugh 18 Al-Qa’eda’s new war Sectarian chaos comes to Afghanistan

Ahmed Rashid 20 The rival returns An encounter with Ken Livingstone

Andrew Gimson 22 Prince of progress

Albert was more than a pretty statue Matthew Dennison 24 A question of faith

Climate ‘sceptics’ ignore the evidence George Monbiot 25 Debate denied Climate dissent is aggressively policed

Christopher Booker

BOOKS & ARTS

Books 36 Jonathan Keates Bernini, by Franco Mormando 39 Jonathan Mirsky Three Lives, by Oliver Matuschek 41 Dan Jones The Age of Chivalry, by

Hywel Williams Philip Ziegler Resurgent

Adventures with Britannia, edited by Wm. Roger Louis 42 Molly Guinness Major/Minor, by Alba Arikha 43 Peter Parker A Glimpse of Empire,

by Jessica Douglas-Home 44 Lewis Jones Outsider, by Brian Sewell Peter Emerson ‘Our Sunday Morning’: a poem 45 Paul Johnson Jane Austen’s

Letters, edited by Deirdre Le Faye 47 Marcus Berkmann on Penguin ebook ‘shorts’ Bookends Ian Thomson

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