Victim support, p20

Dummy text, p44

A more soothing side of Radio 4, p51

5 Leading article 9 Portrait of the Week 11 Diary Joan Collins 12 Politics Fraser Nelson 13 The Spectator’s Notes 16 Barometer 17 Rod Liddle 18 Ancient and modern 25 Matthew Parris 28 James Delingpole 30 Letters 31 Any other business Martin Vander Weyer 55 High life Taki Low life Jeremy Clarke 56 Real life Melissa Kite 57 The turf Robin Oakley Bridge Janet de Botton 58 Chess Raymond Keene 59 Competition;Crossword 60 Status anxiety Toby Young Dave Michael Heath 61 Sport Roger Alton Your problems solved Mary Killen 62 Food Tanya Gold Mind your language

14 Who are ‘the undeserving rich’? Westminster isn’t sure. But it’s suddenly obsessed with them James Forsyth 15 When the pips squeak The folly of punishing high-earners

Dennis Sewell 16 One Day never comes Soulmates are a damaging illusion

Melanie McDonagh 18 Afghanistan’s road not taken A death that changed history

Lucy Morgan Edwards 20 ‘Victim’ at 50

A film that changed the law John Coldstream 22 New York notebook Me, my cats and Irene

Helen Schulman 24 Is Nato finished?

Libya and the future of intervention Anne Applebaum 26 Fifteen minutes later

A hero of the riots Sarfraz Manzoor Boks 34 Philip Hensher on 9/11 36 Ian Thomson Beautiful Thing, by Sonia Faleiro Simon Baker Lazarus is Dead, by Richard Beard

37 Anne Applebaum Moscow: 25 December 1991, by

Conor O’Clery

38 Peter Oborne Inside the Pakistan

Army, by Carey Schofield Noel King ‘At the Edinburgh Fringe’: a poem 39 James Delingpole

Sea Wolves, by Tim Clayton; Sub, by Danny Danziger 40 Dot Wordsworth on Chambers Dictionary 41 Mark Mason Extravagant

Expectations, by Paul Hollander Bookends John Preston Arts 42 William Cook The changing face of

Lancashire’s answer to Las Vegas 44 Olden but golden Charles Spencer Exhibitions Peter Blake:

A Museum for Myself Andrew Lambirth 46 Theatre Anna Christie; Top Girls

Lloyd Evans 48 Cinema Fright Night

Deborah Ross 49 Opera Alcina; Don Giovanni

Michael Tanner Television Simon Hoggart 51 Radio Kate Chisholm Culture notes George Hull

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