Contents Contents Contents Contents the week Leading article

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Portrait of the Week

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Diary Nicky Campbell 9 Politics James Forsyth 10 Letters 25 You know it makes sense James Delingpole 27 Mind your language 18 Ancient & modern 54

Books

Robert Chandler: The Green Snake, by Margarita Woloschin; The Russian Countess, by Edith Sollohub 28 Harry Mount: In for a Penny, in for a Pound, by Tim Waterstone 29 Andrew Taylor: Started Early, Took My Dog, by Kate Atkinson 30 Lewis Jones: Into the Media Web, by Michael Moorcock 31 Hugh Cecil: Bomber County, by Daniel Swift 32 William Leith: Wide Awake, by Patricia Morrisroe 34 Sara Wheeler: Lighting Out For the Territory, by Roy Morris 34

Arts

Lloyd Evans joins the hopeful hordes at the Edinburgh Festival 36 Exhibitions: Volcano: Turner to Warhol Laura Gascoigne 37

The police reforms will fail Alasdair Palmer Fewer paid officers will mean more crime

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Mr Powell’s ‘talking cure’ Jenny McCartney Not all terrorists respond to public schoolboy banter

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Should the council pay for whores? Rod Liddle Local authorities waste money on an epic scale 16

Remember Iraq? Andrew J. Bacevich The lessons for the war in Afghanistan

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Rumble in the jumble Olivia Glazebrook Vintage bucks the dreary sameness of the high street

I want to kill my cat Theo Morgan The rescue cat that turned out to be a monster

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The Saatchi Gallery at Ipswich Art School Andrew Lambirth 37 Opera: Eugene Onegin; La bohème Michael Tanner 38 Edinburgh Theatre: The Sun Also Rises; The Cage; Borderline Racist Lloyd Evans 39 Dance: Cinderella Giannandrea Poesio 40 Television James Delingpole 41 Radio Kate Chisholm 41

‘Have you ever seen the TV programme Scrapheap Challenge?’

Life

The turf

Robin Oakley

High life

Taki

Low life Jeremy Clarke

Real life Melissa Kite

Bridge Susanna Gross

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Cover by Simon Farr. Drawings by Michael Heath, Castro, Mazurke, Meyrick Jones, Colin Wheeler, Nigel Downes, Wilbur, Grizelda, Bernie, Geoff Thompson, Holland and Adam Singleton.

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And finALLy . . .

Wine club Simon Hoggart

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Chess Raymond Keene

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Competition; Crossword 48, 49 Status anxiety Toby Young 54 Sport Roger Alton 55 Your problems solved Mary Killen 55

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