Contents Contents Contents Contents the week Leading article

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Portrait of the Week

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Diary Matt Ridley

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Politics James Forsyth 10 The Spectator’s Notes 11 Dave Michael Heath 13 Mind your language 16 Letters 23 You know it makes sense James Delingpole 24 Shared opinion Hugo Rifkind 26 Diary of a Notting Hill Nobody 28 Any other business Martin Vander Weyer 29 Ancient & modern 62

The death of the male working class Matthew Lynn After all these years, women are winning in the workplace 12

Adventures in La-la land Mary Wakefield Among the western teachers in rural Afghanistan

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IDS to the rescue Fraser Nelson and James Forsyth Iain Duncan Smith goes to war on poverty at the DWP 16

Not so slick, Mr President Philip Delves Broughton Barack Obama has been tainted by the oil crisis in the Gulf 18

Why I love the royal family Rod Liddle They were right about Fergie all along

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In search of disorganised religion Theo Hobson New forms of faith among the laypeople of west London 22

Albert Marquet Laura Gascoigne

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Theatre: Love the Sinner; Ditch Lloyd Evans 45 Antony and Cleopatra Patrick Carnegy 45 Cinema: Sex and the City 2 Deborah Ross 47 Dance: Triple Bill Giannandrea Poesio 47 Opera: Tosca; La fille du régiment Michael Tanner 48 Music Robin Holloway 49 Television James Delingpole 50 Radio Kate Chisholm 51

Books Philip Hensher: Full Circle, by Ferdinand Mount 31 Victoria Glendinning: At Home, by Bill Bryson 32 Andro Linklater: The Royal Stuarts, by Allan Massie 33 Michael Henderson: Bounce, by Matthew Syed 34 Peter Bland: ‘Moving House’: a poem 34 Justin Cartwright: Telling Times, by Nadime Gordimer 35 Andrew Taylor on recent crime novels 37

Arts

Peter Hoskin salutes Clint Eastwood’s artistic legacy 38 Exhibitions: Maggi Hambling: Sea Sculpture, Paintings and Etchings; Stephen Chambers: The Four Corners; Carl Richards: Retrospective Andrew Lambirth 40

‘One thing’s for sure — the mascot designers were not on performance-enhancing drugs.’

Cover by Jonathan Cusick. Drawings by Michael Heath, Castro, Robert Thompson, Tony Husband, McArdle, Robert Thompson, K.J. Lamb, Holland, Adam Singleton, Bernie, Kipper Williams and Nick Newman.

Life

The turf

Robin Oakley

High life

Taki

Low life Jeremy Clarke

Real life Melissa Kite

Bridge Susanna Gross

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Competition; Crossword 56, 57 Status anxiety Toby Young 62 Sport Roger Alton 63 Your problems solved Mary Killen 63

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