The man who can fix it, p20

Going Hungary, p42

THE WEEK

3 Leading article 7 Portrait of the Week 9 Diary Peregrine Worsthorne 10 Politics Daniel Knowles 11 The Spectator’s Notes 17 Rod Liddle 21 Ancient and modern 25 Hugo Rifkind 26 Letters 27 Any other business Martin Vander Weyer

James Forsyth, Deborah Ross and James Delingpole are away.

Midsummer in Stratford, p45

12 These are Blair’s children The rioters and the state

Harriet Sergeant 13 Appetite for destruction Culture and anarchy in Britain

Theodore Dalrymple 14 John Greening ‘Praise for’: a poem 16 Tottenham notebook Saturday night with the rioters

Ravi Somaiya 18 After the golden age Forty years of funny money

Matthew Lynn 20 The next Berlusconi? Diego Della Valle, darling of Rome

Robin Lee Navrozov 21 Help yourself to self-help The faster way to take in advice

Melanie McDonagh 22 The polar bear problem They’re thriving, and they’re hungry

Matt Ridley

BOOKS & ARTS

Books 30 Joanna Kavenna Arctic explorers of the 20th century 32 Alexander Chancellor Death and the Dolce Vita,

by Stephen Gundle 33 Patrick Skene Catling The Cat’s

Table, by Michael Ondaatje Allan Massie Tretower to Clyro,

by Karl Miller 34 Christopher Howse Raised on Skiffle, by Roy Kerridge 35 John Spurling

The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy, by Mervyn Peake; Titus Awakes, by Maeve Gilmore 36 Ed Smith CrickiLeaks, by Alan

Tyers and Beach 37 Hugo Williams The short life of Tara Browne 39 Lewis Jones

Stieg & Me, by Eva Gabrielsson Martin Parker

‘Beyond Descartes’: a poem Bookends Marcus Berkmann

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