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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

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