The writing on the wall in Athens, p9

What you’ll be queuing for, p46

THE WEEK

3 Leading article 7 Portrait of the Week 9 Diary Brendan O’Neill 10 Politics James Forsyth 11 The Spectator’s Notes 14 Barometer 20 Ancient and modern 25 Hugo Rifkind 26 Letters 28 Any other business Martin Vander Weyer

12 Dear Mr Osborne… Experts’ views on how to kick-start the British economy Arthur Laffer, Louise Cooper, Martin Vander Weyer, Ruth Lea, Casey B. Mulligan, Dominic Raab, Terry Smith, Liz Truss, Allister Heath and Norman Tebbit 14 Surviving the euro

Where the EU can go after its disastrous economic experiment Nigel Lawson 18 Dangerous game Why do so many cricketers commit suicide? Michael Henderson 20 Resetting the clock? A Canadian doctor may have found a natural way to extend fertility Leah McLaren 23 New York notebook Keith Richards, Bill Clinton, and me

Dylan Jones

BOOKS & ARTS

Boks 32 David Gilmour

Il Duce and His Women, by Roberto Olla 34 Victoria Glendinning Wits and Wives, by Kate Chisholm Wynn Wheldon ‘The Coming of Spring’: a poem 37 Paul Johnson Wild Flowers, by Sarah Raven Molly Guinness The Horror of Love, by Lisa Hilton 39 Bevis Hillier A choice of art books 44 Nicholas Lezard The House of Silk,

by Anthony Horowitz John Preston

You Talkin’ to Me?, by Sam Leith 45 Martin Jacomb Fortune’s Spear, by

Martin Vander Weyer

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the spectator | 19 November 2011 | www.spectator.co.uk Ways out of the hole, p12

Meryl Streep’s apple pie recipe (oh, and how she is as Thatcher), p50

LIFE

Arts 46 Andrew Lambirth Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the

Court of Milan 49 Minimalism Igor Toronyi-Lalic 50 Dance Manon; Cloud Gate Dance

Theatre of Taiwan: White Giannandrea Poesio Cinema Justice

Deborah Ross 51 Theatre Hamlet

Lloyd Evans 52 Written on the Heart

Patrick Carnegy 55 Opera

Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor Michael Tanner 56 Music Peter Phillips Radio Kate Chisholm 59Television James Delingpole Culture notes LucyVickery Travel 61 The temples of Tamil Nadu Melissa Kite 62 Goa’s two cultures William Dalrymple 63 Kerala in luxury Charlotte Metcalf Life 69 High lifeTaki Low life Jeremy Clarke 71 Real life Melissa Kite 72 Motoring Alan Judd Bridge Susanna Gross And finaly . . . 74 Chess Raymond Keene Competition; Crossword 76 Status anxiety Toby Young Dave Michael Heath 77 The Wiki Man Rory Sutherland

Your problems solved Mary Killen 78 Drink Bruce Anderson Mind your language Dot Wordsworth

Irritatingly, my eggs are not interested in exercising their right to vote. They just sit around hoping for a sperm to call Leah McLaren, p20

Six got to the summit of Kilimanjaro where the form was very much projectile vomiting and psychotic hallucinations Melissa Kite, p73

People enter casinos precisely to increase inequality. But no one willingly plays in a casino that is rigged against them Rory Sutherland, p77

Contributors

Nigel Lawson was editor of The Spectator from 1966 to 1970, and chancellor of the exchequer from 1983 to 1989.

Leah McLaren is a novelist and newspaper columnist. Her experiences as London correspondent of the Toronto Globe and Mail were the basis of a Canadian TV movie.

Paul Johnson’s most recent book is Brief Lives. David Gilmour’s latest book is The Pursuit of Italy. Victoria Glendinning has written biographies of

Trollope, Leonard Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, Edith Sitwell and Vita Sackville-West.

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