Developments in the countryside, p30

A face for playing Churchill, p22

THE WEEK

3 Leading article 7 Portrait of the Week 9 Diary Philip Delves Broughton 10 Politics James Forsyth 11 The Spectator’s Notes 14 Barometer 28 Hugo Rifkind 30 Letters 33 Any other business Martin Vander Weyer

Rod Liddle and Kate Chisholm are away.

12 Yes, Ma’am How the Queen redefined her role with a little help from Sir Humphrey Robert Hardman 13 Catherine Ormell ‘Saint-Exupéry adds a new moth to his collection’: a poem 14 Stop Martin McGuinness

Print the truth before he’s president Douglas Murray 17 Strauss rules

England’s Test captain on leadership Ed Smith 18 The case for cliché Some old chestnuts are delicious

Dot Wordworth 20 The free market in danger To protect our system, change it

Ross Clark 22 Playing Churchill Warren Clarke on taking up the cigar

Robert Gore-Langton 24 Sacrilege in Peterborough Travels with a wheely suitcase

Theodore Dalrymple 27 Algerian Notebook Rian Malan

BOOKS & ARTS

Boks 36 Philip Hensher 1Q84, by Haruki Murakami 39 Samuel Brittan The Better Angels of our Nature, by

Stephen Pinker 40 Martin Vander Weyer Boomerang, by Michael Lewis 41 Masha Karp Mafia State, by Luke Harding 42 Richard Davenport-Hines The Letters of Ernest Hemingway,

Volume I, edited by Sandra Spanier and Robert W. Trogdon 43 William Leith on Joseph Heller 45 Andro Linklater To the Ends of the Earth,

by T.M. Devine 46 Anne Chisholm Irrepressible, by Leslie Brody 47 John Preston What Am I Still Doing Here?,

by Roger Lewis Bookends Mark Mason

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the spectator | 22 October 2011 | www.spectator.co.uk We need to talk about We Need To Talk About Kevin, p58

Claude Lorrain classics, p52

FINE Arts SPECIAL 48 Andrew Lambirth Let art speak for itself 50 Art market Daniel Grant 52 Exhibitions Claude Lorrain:

The Enchanted Landscape Michael Prodger 54 Fra Angelico and the

Masters of Light David Platzer 55 Ford Madox Brown:

Pre-Raphaelite Painter Laura Gascoigne 56 Dance The Royal Ballet; Brilliant

Corners; The Difference Engine Giannandrea Poesio 57 Olden but golden Charles Spencer 58 Cinema We Need to Talk About Kevin

Deborah Ross 59 Opera Xerxes

Michael Tanner 60 Theatre The Pitmen Painters; Honeypot

Lloyd Evans

LIFE

61 Radio Olivia Glazebrook 62 Television James Delingpole Culture notes Rebecca Nicholson

Life 69 High life Taki Low life Jeremy Clarke 71 Real life Melissa Kite 72 Motoring Alan Judd Bridge Susanna Gross

Andfinaly . . . 74 Chess Raymond Keene 75 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 Ancient and modern Peter Jones

How touching to think that the BlackBerry is going the way of the crinoline and the gramophone Charles Moore, p11

Our economic system is fairweather laissez-faireism which turns interventionist for the powerful when the weather goes bad Ross Clark, p20

Something Understood is a 30-minute encouragement to be human — just what my Sunday morning needs Olivia Glazebrook, p61

Contributors

Douglas Murray is an associate director of the Henry Jackson Society.

Dot Wordsworth writes The Spectator’s ‘Mind your language’ column.

Philip Hensher’s most recent novel is King of the Badgers. Samuel Brittan has been an economic commentator at the

Financial Times since 1966.

Anne Chisholm has written biographies of Nancy Cunard, Rumer Godden and Frances Partridge.

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