Melissa Kite lashes back, p55

When Sutherland shone, p40

5 Leading article 8 Portrait of the Week 9 Diary Harold Evans 10 Politics James Forsyth 11 The Spectator’s Notes 17 Rod Liddle 19 Barometer 22 Camilla Long 24 Ancient and modern 26 Letters 29 Any other business Martin Vander Weyer 58 Chess Raymond Keene 59 Competition;Crossword 60 Status anxiety Toby Young Dave Michael Heath 61 Sport Roger Alton Your problems solved Mary Killen 62 Drink Bruce Anderson Mind your language

Hugo Rifkind is away.

12 Labour’s Iron Lady Can Yvette Cooper save her party from Ed Miliband? Melissa Kite 13 Jonathan Goldsmith ‘My Mother’s Morris Minor’: a poem 14 That sinking feeling Why I can never sleep soundly at sea

Nicholas Farrell 16 My inner rainbow Living with synaesthesia

Angela Huth 18 Holding on to their wallets Talking euros in the bars of Stuttgart

Andrew Gimson 20 The age of achievement Great lives really do begin at 40

Paul Johnson 24 A million little tyrants Online, the mob does the censorship

Nick Cohen

BOOKS 32 Sam Leith Thinking the Twentieth

Century, by Tony Judt 34 Anthony Sattin

Cairo, by Ahdaf Soueif Fiona Sampson

‘The Night Barge’: a poem 35 Maureen Waller Queen Anne, by

Anne Somerset 36 A.N. Wilson Religion for Atheists,

by Alain de Botton

37 Alexander Fiske-Harrison

Warrior, by General Sir Jack Seely 38 James Mather Heaven on Earth,

by Sadakat Kadri Bookends Marcus Berkmann

ARTS 39 Kate Chisholm on the enduring appeal of Desert Island Discs 40 Exhibitions Graham Sutherland:

An Unfinished World Andrew Lambirth 42 Theatre The Art of Concealment;

Man in the Middle Lloyd Evans 43 Cinema W.E.

Deborah Ross 45 Opera Giulio Cesare; Die Meistersinger

Michael Tanner 46 Olden but golden

Charles Spencer 47 Television James Delingpole 49 Radio Kate Chisholm Culture notes Teresa Drace-Francis LIFE 53 High Life Taki

Low Life Jeremy Clarke 55 Real Life Melissa Kite 56 The Turf Robin Oakley 57 Bridge Susanna Gross

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