Contents Contents Contents Contents the week Leading article

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Portrait of the Week

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Diary Conrad Black

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Politics James Forsyth 12 The Spectator’s Notes 13 Dave Michael Heath 15 Mind your language 16 Diary of a Notting Hill Nobody 17 Letters 27 You know it makes sense James Delingpole 28 Shared opinion Hugo Rifkind 31 Any other business Martin Vander Weyer 32 Ancient & modern 62

Books

Sam Leith: The Fortune Hunter, by Peter James Bowman

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Caroline Moore: Beatrice and Virgil, by Yann Martel 35 A.N. Wilson: Brief Lives, by Paul Johnson 36 Allan Massie: Courtiers, by Lucy Worsley 37 Kate Grimond: The Cardturner, by Louis Sachar 38 Kate Bingham: ‘Two’: a poem 38 Peter Jay: Lords of the Sea, by John R. Hale 39

Arts

Lloyd Evans talks to the Almeida’s artistic director

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More power to the press Boris Johnson Journalists are the true custodians of democracy

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What happened on Bloody Sunday? Douglas Murray The Saville inquiry will not reveal the truth 16

Meet Mr Efficiency James Forsyth An interview with Philip Hammond, the new man at Transport 18

Glastonbury is so middle-aged Brendan O’Neill Young people are right to avoid the authoritarian pigpen 21

Miraculous maths Rod Liddle Ingenious puzzles defy what we think we know

Letter from Syria Martin Gayford

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Exhibitions: Another Country: London Painters in Dialogue with Modern Italian Art Andrew Lambirth 41 Theatre: All My Sons; Shrunk Lloyd Evans 43 Opera: Le nozze di Figaro; The Pearl Fishers; A Midsummer Night’s Dream Michael Tanner 45 Pop Marcus Berkmann 45 Cinema: Greenberg Deborah Ross 47 Radio Kate Chisholm 49 Television James Delingpole 49

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Life

The turf

Robin Oakley

Motoring

Alan Judd

High life

Taki

Low life Jeremy Clarke

Real life Melissa Kite

Bridge Susanna Gross

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Competition; Crossword 56, 57 Status anxiety Toby Young 62 Sport Roger Alton 63 Your problems solved Mary Killen 63

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