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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the spectator | 31 march 2012 | www.spectator.co.uk The blossoming of Rose Wylie, p48

Big top opera, p50

44 James Walton Azazeel, by Youssef Ziedan Ian Thomson Under the Same Stars, by Tim Lott 45 Anne Chisholm No Time Like the

Present, by Nadime Gordimer Bookends Dan Jones

Arts 47 Kate Chisholm The People’s Passion on Radio 4

brings cathedrals back into the heart of our communities 48 Exhibitions Rose Wylie

Andrew Lambirth 50 Opera Circus Tricks;

Acante and Céphise Michael Tanner 52 Theatre A Walk on Part

Lloyd Evans 53 Cinema Switch

Deborah Ross 55 Television Tim Stanley 57 Radio Kate Chisholm Culture notes Andrew Petrie

LIFE

Life 61 High life Taki Low life Jeremy Clarke 62 Real life Melissa Kite 63 Wild life Aidan Hartley 64 The turf Robin Oakley Bridge Susanna Gross

And finaly . . . 66 Chess Raymond Keene 67 Competition; Crossword 68 Status anxiety Toby Young Dave Michael Heath 69 The Wiki Man Rory Sutherland Your problems solved Mary Killen 70 Drink Bruce Anderson Mind your language Dot Wordsworth

Tories are privately briefing that Peter Cruddas is a ‘barrow boy’ who is not much use at fund-raising. What bastards they can be Charles Moore, p13

Mortal sins were not always agreed upon: Islamic scholars believed Sodom was destroyed because its inhabitants farted in public Philip Hensher, p35

This narrative follows no known logic: not internal, not external, not even the sort that dithers out on the patio and has a smoke while trying to make up its mind. Deborah Ross, p53

Contributors eith Ward was formerly Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford and Canon of Christ Church, Oxford.

Robert Chandler’s translations from the Russian include Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate, Pushkin’s The Captain’s Daughter and Leskov’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.

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James Walton presents The Write Stuff on BBC Radio 4 and is the author of Sonnets, Bonnets and Bennetts: A Literary Quiz.

Dan Jones’s latest book is Summer of Blood: The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381.

Tim Stanley is a historian at Oxford University, a Telegraph blogger, and the author of the new book The Crusader: The Life and Times of Pat Buchanan.

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