Heretic-hunting, p20

Do you have a criminal mind?, p14

The wicked Welsh Wizard, p38

THE WEEK

5 Leading article 9 Portrait of the Week 11 Diary Tom Hollander 12 Politics James Forsyth 13 The Spectator’s Notes 19 Mind your language 22 Barometer 24 Ancient & modern 27 Rod Liddle 28 James Delingpole 31 Hugo Rifkind 33 Letters 34 Any other business Martin Vander Weyer

Kate Chisholm is away

THOUGHT CRIME SPECIAL 14 I think, therefore I’m guilty Britain is liberal and progressive, so don’t you dare disagree Melanie Phillips 17 Howtostifle the press England’s libel laws make it easy Alan Rusbridger 18 Let’s hear it for contempt People must be free to sneer Matthew Parris 20 Scientists in hiding The demonisation of academics who question the consensus Christopher Booker 22 Last laughs Comedy is being suffocated Hardeep Singh Kohli

24 Drunk and orderly In the pub, teenagers used to learn to drink responsibly Brendan O’Neill 25 Bush the Third? Jeb Bush says he won’t run for president. Don’t believe him Patrick Allitt

BOOKS & ARTS

BOOKS 38 Paul Johnson The Great Outsider: David Lloyd George, by Roy Hattersley 40 Dan Jones A Royal Passion, by Katie Whitaker 42 Beatrice Garland ‘The Swimming Pool’: a poem 42 Penelope Lively Crazy Age, by Jane Miller 42 Sîan Hughes Human Chain, by Seamus Heaney 45 Lloyd Evans Man with a Blue Scarf, by Martin Gayford 46 Francis King The Accident, by Ismail Kadare 47 JamesWalton How Music Works, by John Powell 47 Brandon Robshaw ‘How to Lie’: a poem 48 Andrew Taylor Our Kind of Traitor, by John le Carré 48 Michael Carlson Bookends

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the spectator | 18 September 2010 | www.spectator.co.uk The Kid v Deborah Ross, p54

A.A. Gill on the passion of

Terry O’Neill, p50

A father and son on holiday in the wilderness, p64

Arts 50 Candid camera A.A. Gill talks to Terry O’Neill 52 Exhibitions William Pye

Andrew Lambirth 54 Culture notes TheWorld at War, remastered

Peter Hoskin 54 Cinema The Kid Deborah Ross 56 Theatre Deathtrap

Lloyd Evans 56 Music Peter Phillips 57 Opera Così fan tutte; Don Pasquale Michael Tanner 58 Television James Delingpole 61 Gardens Ursula Buchan

LIFE

Life 71 High life Taki 71 Low life Jeremy Clarke 72Real life Melissa Kite 73TheTurf Robin Oakley 73 Bridge Susanna Gross 75 Wine club Simon Hoggart

And fin al y . . . 76 Chess

RaymondKeene Competition; Crossword 78Status anxiety Toby Young ave Michael Heath 79Sport Roger Alton Your problems solved

Mary Killen

‘Simon Russell Beale is capable of far greater challenges. It’s a bit like watching Picasso paint your shed’ Lloyd Evans, p56

‘What if Prince William were to marry a Saudi princess with a chic Chanel burka?’ Dan Jones, p40

‘I’ve always thought it must be marvellous to be attractive enough to sleep with almost anyone’ Jeremy Clarke, p71 TRAVEL S PEC I AL p62

Contributors

Melanie Phillips is a broadcaster and author, and a columnist for the Daily Mail. She is a winner of the Orwell prize T om Hollander played Lord Cutler Beckett in Pirates of the Caribbean, Simon Foster MP in In The Loop and the lead role in Rev

Paul Johnson has been writing for The Spectator since 1981. He is the author of more than 40 books

Alan R usbridger is the editor-in-chief of the Guardian newspaper the spectator | 18 September 2010 | www.spectator.co.uk

A.A. Gill is the television and restaurant critic of the Sunday Times, a broadcaster and an author. He has won two Glenfiddich awards

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