Sitting uncomfortably, p23

Who would live in a house like this?, p40

3 Leading article 7 Portrait of the Week 9 Diary Ian Kirby 11 The Spectator’s Notes 17 Rod Liddle 18 Barometer 20 Ancient and modern 23 Hugo Rifkind 25 Letters 26 Any other business Martin Vander Weyer

Life 53 High life Taki Low life Jeremy Clarke 55 Real life Melissa Kite 56 Motoring Alan Judd 57 Bridge Susanna Gross

AND FINALLY… 57 Chess Ray Keene 58 Competition;Crossword 60 Status anxiety Toby Young Dave Michael Heath 61 The Wiki Man Rory Sutherland Your problems solved Mary Killen 62 Drink Bruce Anderson

Mind your language

12 Taking on the empire An interview with Ed Miliband

James Forsyth 13 The case for Rupert Murdoch William Shawcross 14 Tunisia’s disastrous revolution A secular state is turning Islamist

John R. Bradley 16 Tattoos and the older woman A new way of trying to be young

Andrew M. Brown 18 Never trust an editor Ministers and hacks cannot be mates

Max Hastings 20 Rage on the pavement Why no traffic police for pedestrians?

Mark Mason 22 All out Subsidy is killing county cricket

Simon Heffer Books 30 Paul Johnson on Evelyn Waugh 32 Caroline Moorehead Seen in the

Yemen, by Hugh Leach Lee Langley Thin Paths, by

Julia Blackburn 33 Michael Beaumont The Levelling

Sea, by Philip Marsden 34 Marcus Berkmann Ghosts by

Daylight, by Janine di Giovanni Diana Hendry ‘On Falling Out of

Love with Bookshops’: a poem

35 David Gilmour The Inner Life of

Empires, by Emma Rothschild 37 Charlotte Moore How to be a

Woman, by Caitlin Moran Bookends Alan Judd 38 Peter Parker

A tribute to Francis King Philip Hancock

‘Masquerade’: a poem Arts 40 Alasdair Palmer Palladian glories 42 Opera Cendrillon; Madama Butterfly

Michael Tanner 43 Exhibitions Devotion by Design: Italian

Altarpieces before 1500 Andrew Lambirth 44 Music Peter Phillips 45 Appreciation Cy Twombly

Andrew Lambirth 46 Cinema Cell 211

Deborah Ross Theatre

The Village Bike; Park Avenue Cat Lloyd Evans 47 Radio Kate Chisholm 49 Television James Delingpole Culture note Toby Young

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