Rod Liddle on the Huhne family, p17

Let Edward Albee put you off your interval drinks, p51

Hitler’s children, p42

3 Leading article 7 Portrait of the Week 9 Diary Jeffrey Archer 10 Politics James Forsyth 17 Rod Liddle 18 Barometer 23 Mind your language 25 Ancient and modern 26 Hugo Rifkind 27 Letters 37 Any other business Martin Vander Weyer

12 Welcome to the jungle Westminster’s Strauss-Kahn types

Carrie Fox 13 The pathology of politicians Matthew Parris 14 Someone else’s war

David Cameron and Afghanistan Con Coughlin 16 Ireland Notebook Mary Kenny 18 A green dark age A green target with disastrous results

Matt Ridley 20 Man of the resistance Interview with a Norwegian hero

Christian House 22 Who speaks for the world? The BBC surrenders to Al Jazeera

Dennis Sewell 25 Never-never land Liverpool, city of debt culture

Peter Hoskin INVESTMENT SPECIAL 29 The trend is your friend Learning from the Boy Plunger Tim Price 30 Grey rights More power for pensioners

Ian Cowie

33 Nature’s risks and rewards A crash course in commodities

Alex Brummer 34 Anything but gilts The next ‘trade of the decade’

Jonathan Price Books 40 A.N. Wilson The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress,

by Beryl Bainbridge 42 Hester Vaizey Wolfram, by Giles Milton;

Reluctant Accomplice, edited by Konrad H. Jarausch 43 David Sexton The Smell of Summer Grass,

by Adam Nicolson 44 Vernon Bogdanor The Origins of Political Order,

by Francis Fukuyama 45 Life and letters Allan Massie 46 Honor Clerk Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves,

by Jacqueline Yallop 47 Charlotte Moore Zero Degrees of Empathy,

by Simon Baron Cohen Bookends Fay Maschler

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