Contents Contents Contents Contents the week Leading article

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Portrait of the Week

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Diary Ozzy Osbourne 11 The Spectator’s Notes 13 Dave Michael Heath 15 Mind your language 18 Letters 27 You know it makes sense James Delingpole 29 Shared opinion Hugo Rifkind 30 Any other business Martin Vander Weyer 32 Ancient & modern 62

Books Sam Leith: The Secret State: Preparing for the Worst 19452010, by Peter Hennessy 34 John R. MacArthur: Hellhound on his Trail, by Hampton Sides 35 D.J. Taylor: The Misogynist, by Piers Paul Read 37 Eric Christiansen: Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Biography, by Adam Sisman 38 James Walton: Heartbreak, by Craig Raine 39 Florence O’Donoghue: Shane Leslie: Sublime Failure, by Otto Rauchbauer 40 Marcus Berkmann: Teach Us to Sit Still, by Tim Parks 40 Giles Foden: My Friend the Mercenary, by James Brabazon 41

Arts

Peter Phillips looks ahead to the Proms 42 Exhibitions: Familiar Visions: Eric & James Ravilious, Father & Son; Ravilious Woodcuts Laura Gascoigne 43

Coalition forever James Forsyth Cameron is warming to Lib Dem plans for voting reform 14

Gay sex by sat-nav Theo Hobson Grindr has turned the world into Hampstead Heath

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Between Cameron and the Pope Damian Thompson Lord Patten has been enlisted to help organise the papal visit 18

Let children cycle to school Rod Liddle And stop telling them they are vulnerable and thick

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Can the iPad save Fleet Street? Mark Wood Apple’s latest toy could make the readers start paying again 23

Who will judge the judges? Peter Jones The Supreme Court seems to be accountable only to itself 24

Archive diary Beryl Bainbridge RIP 26

Beauty & Power: Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes; Caravaggio’s Friends & Foes; William Crozier: Early Work Andrew Lambirth 45 Theatre: The Tempest; Sucker Punch Lloyd Evans 45 Opera: Simon Boccanegra; Manon Michael Tanner 49 Cinema: Leaving; London River Deborah Ross 50 Radio Kate Chisholm 51 Television James Delingpole 51

Life

Motoring

Alan Judd

The turf

Robin Oakley

High life

Taki

Low life Jeremy Clarke

Real life Melissa Kite

Bridge Susanna Gross

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Competition; Crossword 60, 61 Status anxiety Toby Young 62 Sport Roger Alton 63 Your problems solved Mary Killen 63

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