Private grief, p14

What’s hitting the Royal Academy, p41

3 Leading article 7 Portrait of the Week 9 Diary Justin Cartwright 10 Politics James Forsyth 11 The Spectator’s Notes 14 Barometer 17 Rod Liddle 20 Mind your language 22 James Delingpole 26 Letters 28 Any other business Martin Vander Weyer 59 Bridge Janet de Botton 60 Chess Raymond Keene 61 Competition;Crossword 62 Status anxiety Toby Young Dave Michael Heath 63 Sport Roger Alton Your problems solved Mary Killen

12 Rogue generals Politicians have let the military become dangerously overconfident Sherard Cowper-Coles 13 John Mole

‘Pain’: a poem 14 Care home syndrome When privatisation doesn’t work

Ross Clark 16 Leaderless Europe The EU’s ruling nonentities

Philip Stephens 18 Al-Qa’eda’s Arab Spring Islamists are taking over the revolts

Con Coughlin 20 Ghostwriters uncovered Does it matter who wrote what?

John Sutherland 23 George Orwell’s faith A very Christian atheist

Robert Gray Boks 30 Sam Leith Treason of the Heart,

by David Pryce-Jones 33 Jonathan Sumption The

Coalition and the Constitution, by Vernon Bogdanor 34 Philip Ziegler

Young Prince Philip, by Philip Eade Michael Henderson on cricket books

36 Michael Jacobs A Pilgrim in Spain,

by Christopher Howse 37 David Crane With Our Backs to the Wall, by David Stevenson Bookends Mark Mason

Arts 39 Laura Gascoigne on the Venice Biennale 40 Interview Tom Priestley, son of J.B.

Robert Gore-Langton 41 Exhibitions Summer Exhibition 2011

Andrew Lambirth 42 Opera Turandot; Così fan tutte Michael Tanner 44 Cinema Kung Fu Panda 2

Deborah Ross 45 Pop Marcus Berkmann 46 Theatre Pygmalion; One Man, Two Guvnors

Lloyd Evans Radio Kate Chisholm 49 Television Simon Hoggart

Culture notes Martin Vander Weyer Life 55 High life Taki Low life Jeremy Clarke 58 Real life Melissa Kite 59 The turf Robin Oakley

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