Business demystified, p32

The women of Mad Men, p55

THE WEEK

5 Leading article 9 Portrait of the Week 11 Diary William Boyd 12 Politics James Forsyth 13 The Spectator’s Notes 23 Rod Liddle 26 Ancient and modern 28 Hugo Rifkind 30 Letters 32 Any other business Martin Vander Weyer

James Delingpole and Barometer return next week.

14 Battle of the generations Is it the baby-boomers’ job to pay for the deficit? Yes, says Daniel Knowles. No, says Carol Sarler 15 Peter Bland ‘Stalker’: a poem 17 A new Argy-bargy Fresh trouble over the Falklands?

John Simpson 18 The return of Sarkozy How a crisis has revived his hopes

Patrick Marnham 20 Little Pyongyang North Korean dissidents in London

Oliver Lewis 22 The scholarship society

Making private schools meritocratic Peter Lampl 26 Lost faith Forgotten truths about the C of E

Keith Ward

BOOKS & ARTS

Books 34 Philip Hensher In the Shadow of the Sword, by Tom Holland 36 Richard Davenport-Hines The

Hanging Garden, by Patrick White Dalibor Rohac An Economist

Gets Lunch, by Tyler Cowen 37 Andrew Lambirth Prunella

Clough, by Frances Spalding 38 Molly Guinness That’s Disgusting,

by Rachel Hertz 39 Robert Chandler on two concise histories of Russia 40 Graham Stewart

Luck, by Ed Smith 41 Sophia Waugh Painter of Silence,

by Georgina Harding 42 Jonathan Mirsky The Meadow, by

Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark Stephen Romer

‘Kettle’s Yard’: a poem 43 William Leith Circulation,

by Thomas Wright

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