Criminals, the unemployed, and   Rod   Liddle’s driveway, p20

A silly project named after a genius, p18

What Mugabe has done for

Zimbabwe’s whites, p22

THE WEEK

5 Leading article 9 Portrait of the Week 11 Diary Sam Tanenhaus 12 Politics James Forsyth 13 The Spectator’s Notes 16 Barometer 18 Mind your language 20 Rod Liddle 28 Ancient and modern 30 James Delingpole 32 Hugo Rifkind 36 Letters 39 Any other business Martin Vander Weyer

14 Osborne’s tax exiles The 50p top rate is proving to be the coalition’s most costly policy Fraser Nelson 16 Don’t patronise women Why do we need special awards?

Melanie McDonagh 18 Costs in space The EU’s mad attempt to rival GPS

Douglas Murray 22 Mugabe’s children Peter Godwin on Zimbabwe

Aidan Hartley 24 Iceland heats up The banks failed;

the country hasn’t Matthew Lynn 27 Beijing notebook Autumn in the centre of the world Tessa Keswick 28 Behind the blockade Terror is one of Gaza’s few   remaining exports Jo Johnson

BOOKS & ARTS

Christmas Boks I 42 Philip Hensher Tolstoy, by Rosamund Bartlett 45 Nicky Haslam

Nigel Dempster and the Death of Discretion, by Tim Willis Bookends Peter Hoskin 46 Justin Cartwright Life and Times,

by Nadine Gordimer Anthony Daniels The Mind’s Eye,

by Oliver Sacks 47 Francis King Lennox and Freda, by Tony Scotland 48 Raymond Carr In Search of a Past,

by Ronald Fraser 49 Douglas Hurd Parting Shots,

edited by Matthew Parris and Andrew Bryson 50 Harry Mount The Hemlock Cup,

by Bettany Hughes 51 Mark Girouard Triumvirate, by

Mosette Broderick 52 Judith Flanders The Queen’s Doll’s

House, by Lucinda Lambton 53 Gary Dexter Phantoms of the

Bookshelves, by Jacques Bonnet

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