Reflections on the heart of Russia, p59

THE WEEK

3 Leading article 7 Portrait of the Week 9 Diary Christopher Caldwell 11 The Spectator’s Notes 14 Mind your language 16 Barometer 17 Rod Liddle 25 Matthew Parris 26 James Delingpole 28 Ancient and modern 31 Letters 32 Any other business Martin Vander Weyer

Dances with Toulouse-Lautrec, p49

12 What women want The Tories’ patronising attempts to regain their female vote Melanie McDonagh 13 Catherine Ormell ‘The Food Hall Seduction’: a poem 14 Libya Notebook Days of hope in Benghazi

Ned Cranborne 16 Moscow’s man in al-Qa’eda

The new terror leader and the KGB Pavel Stroilov 18 The Alexander technique A Brownite repents

James Forsyth 20 Liberty, equality, fecundity Breeding for victory in France

John Laughland 22 Making waves

An interview with Her Deepness Lloyd Evans 28 Pet hate Why is London so anti-dog?

Julia Stephenson

BOOKS & ARTS

Boks 38 Ian Thomson on Rome 40 Allan Massie

Tides of War, by Stella Tillyard; On His Majesty’s Service, by Allan Mallinson Edward King

Intern Nation, by Ross Perlin 41 Simon Courtauld

Into the Arena, by Alexander Fiske-Harrison 42 Justin Cartwright

Last Man in Tower, by Aravind Adiga Paul Johnson

To End All Wars, by Adam Hochschild 43 Bookends Lewis Jones 44 James Walton

Foreign Bodies, by Cynthia Ozick 45 William Feaver

John Craxton, by Ian Collins Richard Davenport-Hines The Age of Anxiety, by W.H. Auden

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