Lib Doom, p12

A visit to Greeneland, p40

What do you mean, you don’t like Norman Rockwell?, p37

3 Leading article 7 Portrait of the Week 9 Diary Boris Johnson 10 Politics James Forsyth 11 The Spectator’s Notes 17 Rod Liddle 18 Barometer 20 Mind your language 23 Hugo Rifkind 24 Ancient and modern 25 Letters 26 Any other business Martin Vander Weyer 51 Wine club Simon Hoggart 52 Chess Raymond Keene 53 Competition;Crossword 54 Status anxiety Toby Young Dave Michael Heath 55 The Wiki Man

Rory Sutherland Your problems solved

Mary Killen

12 Liberal England dies again The return of two-party politics

Nick Cohen 13 Alastair Elliott ‘A futon in

Cleveland, Ohio’: a poem 14 The man who read everything John Gross remembered

Craig Brown 18 What you can’t say in German Thilo Sarrazin, Berlin’s Cassandra

Christopher Caldwell 20 Finding my voice

My stammer — and George VI’s Jonathan Mirsky 24 My, how they’ve grown! Lord Adonis on Gove’s academies

Matthew Smith Books 28 Philip Hensher The Passages of

Herman Melville, by Jay Parini; By Nightfall, by Michael Cunningham 30 Oliver Gilmour Serving Genius, by

Thomas D. Saler William Wootten: ‘The

Remaining’: a poem Alexander Masters

Caroline, by Cornelius Medvei 31 Allan Massie Life and letters 32 Charlotte Moore A Kind Man, by

Susan Hill Andro Linklater Atlas of Remote

Islands, by Judith Schalansky Dennis O’Driscoll: ‘Memoir’: a poem

33 Jonathan Sumption

The Golden Age, by Hugh Thomas 34 Vernon Bogdanor Ages of

Reform, by Kenneth O. Morgan Bookends Mark Amory Arts 35 Interview Penelope Curtis Ariane Bankes 36 Music Peter Phillips 37 Exhibitions Norman Rockwell; Percy Kelly

Andrew Lambirth 38 Cinema Conviction

Deborah Ross 40 Theatre Ivona, Princess of

Burgundia; The Potting Shed Lloyd Evans 40 Opera Hänsel und Gretel; Tannhäuser

Michael Tanner 41 Radio Kate Chisholm 43 Television James Delingpole Culture notes Nicola McCartney Life 47 High life Taki Low life Jeremy Clarke 49 Real life Melissa Kite 50 Wild life Aidan Hartley 50 Bridge Susanna Gross

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