Bad nurses, p19

THE WEEK

3 Leading article 7 Portrait of the Week 9 Diary Andrew Roberts 17 Rod Liddle 18 Barometer 20 James Delingpole 26 Hugo Rifkind 28 Letters 30 Any other business Martin Vander Weyer

Charles Moore is away.

A voyage round my father, p42

10 The guilty men The great euro scandal

Peter Oborne 12 The euro’s first victim On the Spectator interview which cost Nicholas Ridley his job Dominic Lawson 14 Last of the Blairites An interview with Jim Murphy

James Forsyth 18 Classic comeback The Latin and Greek revival

Peter Jones 19 Institutionalised brutality Eastern European nurses are scary

Carol Sarler 22 Slovenia notebook Barry Humphries 24 In praise of the shura Lessons from Afghanistan

William Beharrell

BOOKS & ARTS

Books 34 Tom Stacey Explorers of the Nile,

by Tim Jeal 36 Lloyd Evans A Walk-on Part, by

Chris Mullen; The Importance of Being Awkward, by Tam Dalyell 37 Hugh Cecil NowAll Roads Lead to

France,by Matthew Hollis 38 William Leith The Genius in My

Basement, by Alexander Masters 39 Judith Flanders Girl in a Green

Gown, by Carola Hicks 41 Peter Oborne Why Leaders Lie,

by John Mearsheimer 42 Philip Ziegler A Daughter’s Tale,

by Mary Soames 43 Andrew Taylor on recent crime fiction Bookends Lewis Jones

FINE Arts SPECIAL 44 Andrew Lambirth Dennis Creffield: an appreciation

Cover by Stephen Collins. Drawings by Michael Heath, Castro, RGJ, Hunter, Ian Tovey, Wilbur, McCoy, Nick Downes, Evans, Bernie, Grizelda, Geoff Thompson. www.spectator.co.uk To subscribe to The Spectator for £104 a year, turn to page 28 Editorial and advertising The Spectator, 22 Old Queen Street, London SW1H 9HP, Tel: 020 7961 0200, Fax: 020 7961 0250, Email: editor@spectator.co.uk (editorial); letters@spectator.co.uk (for publication); advertising@spectator.co.uk (advertising); Advertising enquiries: 020 7961 0219 Advertising fax: 020 7961 0020 Supplement name here If you are an overseas reader and would like a copy of Supplement Name please email spectator@servicehelpline.co.uk with your name and address and subscriber reference if appropriate Subscription and delivery queries Spectator Subscriptions Dept., 800 Guillat Avenue, Kent Science Park, Sittingbourne ME9 8GU; Tel: 01795 592886 Fax: 0870 220 0290; Email: spectator@servicehelpline.co.uk Newsagent queries Spectator Circulation Dept, 22 Old Queen Street, London SW1H 9HP, Tel: 020 7961 0200, Fax: 020 7961 0057, Email: dstam@spectator.co.uk Distributor COMAG Specialist, Tavistock Works, Tavistock Road, West Drayton, Middlesex UB7 7QX Vol 317; no 9552 © The Spectator (1828) Ltd. ISSN 0038-6952 The Spectator is published weekly by The Spectator (1828) Ltd at 22 Old Queen Street, London SW1H 9HP Editor: Fraser Nelson

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the spectator | 24 September 2011 | www.spectator.co.uk Jerusalem sunrise, p44

What’s wrong with being sexy?, p59

46 Interview John Studzinski

Mary Wakefield 48 Exhibitions Sven Berlin

Laura Gascoigne 49 Saleroom Susan Moore 50 Medieval frescoes Alasdair Palmer 52 Cinema I Don’t Know How She Does It

Deborah Ross 52 Opera Il Trittico; The Elixir of Love

Michael Tanner 53 Theatre My City; No Naughty Bits

Lloyd Evans 54 Olden but golden Charles Spencer 55 Music Damian Thompson 57 Radio Kate Chisholm 59 Television James Delingpole Culture notes Brendan O’Neill

LIFE

Life 63 High life Taki Low life Jeremy Clarke 64 Real life Melissa Kite 65 Motoring Alan Judd Bridge Susanna Gross

AND FINALLY 62 Wine Club Simon Hoggart 66 Chess Raymond Keene 67 Competition;Crossword 68 Status anxiety Toby Young Dave Michael Heath 69 The Wiki Man

Rory Sutherland Your problems solved Mary Killen 70 Drink Bruce Anderson Mind your language

Dot Wordsworth

Bill Clinton told me something rather shocking about one of the Republican presidential frontrunners. . . If it’s true, the race is still wide open Andrew Roberts, p9

I have often wondered if Ridley might have survived had the Spectator employed a less gifted cover artist Dominic Lawson, p12

As Britain goes to hell in a handcart, the knowledge that Downton Abbey imparts about how one ought properly to behave may be all that stands between us and the total collapse of civilisation James Delingpole, p59

Contributors

Peter Oborne (‘The guilty men’, p.10; books, p.41) is the chief political commentator of the Daily Telegraph and a contributing editor to The Spectator.

Dominic Lawson (‘The euro’s first victim’, p.12) edited The Spectator from 1990 to 1995 and is a columnist for the Sunday Times and the Independent.

Barry Humphries (Slovenia notebook, p.22) is best known for his comic characters Sir Les Patterson and Dame Edna Everage, and is a regular diarist for The Spectator.

William Leith (books, p.38) is author of The Hungry Years and Bits of Me Are Falling Apart.

Philip Ziegler (books, p.42) is the biographer of King William IV, Lord Louis Mountbatten, Harold Wilson and Edward Heath.

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