Sentenced to Africa, p32

You’ll never keep secrets in this town again, p47

THE WEEK

3 Leading article 7 Portrait of the Week 9 Diary Miriam Gross 10 Politics Philip Collins 11 The Spectator’s Notes 17 Camilla Long 18 Ancient and modern 25 Rod Liddle 26 Letters 29 Any other business Martin Vander Weyer

12 Afraid of being right The coalition is in trouble because it isn’t listening to ordinary Tories Tim Montgomerie 13 What Osborne must do Allister Heath 14 A gold medal for idiocy

My favourite Olympic folly Andrew Gilligan 16 French leave Holidays are a national obsession

John Laughland 18 This thing of darkness The right and Norway’s horror

Douglas Murray 20 The conductors’ conductor In search of Carlos Kleiber

Oliver Gilmour 23 On the beach Rediscover classic thrillers

Peter Hitchens

Hugo Rifkind and James Forsyth are away

BOOKS & ARTS

Boks 32 Sam Leith A Merciless Place, by

Emma Christopher 34 Andro Linklater Rat Island, by

William Stolzenburg Anita Brookner Civil to Strangers,

by Barbara Pym 35 James Walton Walk the Lines,

by Mark Mason 36 Kieron Winn ‘In the British Museum’: a poem

Christian House on first novels 38 Sam Tanenhaus Alfred Kazin’s

Journals, edited by Richard M. Cook 39 Life and letters

Allan Massie 40 David Crane

In the Garden of Beasts,by Erik Larson 41 Hilary Mantel on Elizabeth Jenkins Peter Bland

‘The Deserted Boatyard’: a poem 42 BookendsAndrewTaylor

Cover by Christian Adams. Drawings by Michael Heath, Castro, Ian Tovey, Holland, Nick Newman, Grizelda, Bernie, Adam Singleton, Robert Thomson, RGJ, Roger Latham, Ian Baker, Mazurke, McLachlan, Herneman and Geoff Thompson. www.spectator.co.uk To subscribe to The Spectator for £104 a year, turn to page 49 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 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 316; no 9544 © 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 | 30 July 2011 | www.spectator.co.uk Alternatives to Plan B, p29

Art history of the Kelly gang, p45

Arts 43 Michael Henderson The art of the encore 44 Cinema Horrid Henry

Deborah Ross 45 Exhibitions Out of Australia: Prints and

Drawings from Sidney Nolan to Rover Thomas Andrew Lambirth 46 Opera Die Walküre

Michael Tanner 47 Theatre Loyalty; On the Record

Lloyd Evans 49 Radio Kate Chisholm 51 Television James Delingpole Culture notes Andrew Petrie

LIFE

Life 53 High life Taki Low life Jeremy Clarke 55 Real life Melissa Kite Bridge Susanna Gross

And finaly . . . 58 Chess Raymond Keene 59 Competition; Crossword 60Status anxiety Toby Young Dave Michael Heath 61 The Wiki Man Rory Sutherland Your problems solved Mary Killen 62 Drink Bruce Anderson Mind Your Language Dot Wordsworth

The speed at which you eat, it seems to me, is one of the most crucial criteria for compatibility in marriage Miriam Gross, p9

Zelda Fitzgerald wasn’t alone in thinking that the hair on Hemingway’s chest was a toupée, though she expressed the suspicion better than anyone else Allan Massie, p39

TV is getting more annoying. Possibly, this is just a sign of my getting older and more irritable but I don’t think so James Delingpole, p51

Contributors

Miriam Gross is a former arts editor of the Daily Telegraph and a former literary editor of the Sunday Telegraph.

Oliver Gilmour is a writer and classical music conductor. Douglas Murray is associate director of the Henry Jackson

Society.

am Tanenhaus is senior editor of the New York Times Book Review.

Hilary Mantel was the first winner of The Spectator’s Shiva Naipaul prize. Wolf Hall, which won the 2009 Man Booker prize, is now in paperback.

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