Year of the tiger, p37

Becoming Ophelia, p46

Speaking up for radio, p24

3 Leading article 7 Portrait of the Week 9 Diary Andrew Roberts 10 Politics James Forsyth 11 The Spectator’s Notes 14 Mind your language 17 Rod Liddle 20 Barometer 23 Matthew Parris 25 Ancient and modern 26 James Delingpole 29 Letters 30 Any other business Martin Vander Weyer 60 Chess Raymond Keene 61 Competition;Crossword 62 Status anxiety Toby Young Dave Michael Heath 63 Sport Roger Alton Your problems solved

Mary Killen

12 Breaking the ice Cold facts from Antarctica

Nicholas Lewis and Matt Ridley 14 Take my DNA, please

My plan to save the police database Melanie McDonagh 18 A prayer for the Copts Egypt’s embattled Christians

John Casey 20 Queens of the blog age Arianna vs Tina vs the internet

Toby Young 25 The voice of England Radio 4 is better in RP

Michael Henderson Books 34 John Preston Liberty’s Exiles,

by Maya Jasanoff 36 Lewis Jones Bird Cloud,

by Annie Proulx Cressida Connolly Henry’s

Demons, by Patrick and Henry Cockburn 37 Jonathan Mirsky Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, by Amy Chua 39 Robert Stewart

Reprobates, by John Stubbs Catherine Ormell

‘The Simple Life’: a poem 40 Jonathan Croall Arthur Miller,

by Christopher Bigsby Honor Clerk More Than You Can

Say, by Paul Torday 42 Life and letters Allan Massie

43 Philip Mansel Jerusalem,

by Simon Sebag Montefiore 44 Anthony Cummins Saints and

Sinners, by Edna O’Brien Bookends Mark Mason Arts 44 Interview Raymond Gubbay

Robert Gore-Langton 46 Exhibitions The Poetry of Drawing

Andrew Lambirth 47 Music Peter Phillips 48 Cinema Paul

Peter Hoskin 49 Theatre Greenland; The Children’s Hour

Lloyd Evans 50 Opera The Portrait

Michael Tanner 51 Radio Kate Chisholm 52 Culture notes George Hull

Television Simon Hoggart Life 57 High life Taki Low life Jeremy Clarke 58 Real life Melissa Kite 59 The turf Robin Oakley 59 Bridge Janet de Botton

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