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A £50,000 player, p42

THE WEEK

3 Leading article 7 Portrait of the Week 9 Diary Tom Hollander 10 Politics James Forsyth 11 The Spectator’s Notes 17 Rod Liddle 20 Barometer 21 Matthew Parris 23 James Delingpole 24 Letters 30 Any other business Martin Vander Weyer

How to beat the drop, p28

Smokin’ ladies, p20

12 In praise of British men The author eats her words

Leah McLaren 14 Savile Row revolutionary Bo Xilai was a charming princeling

John Simpson 16 Reasons to kill a prime minister Spencer Perceval’s many enemies

Andro Linklater 18 Roy of the readers My friend the England manager

Michael Henderson 20 Dead pretty Why shouldn’t cigarettes be pink?

Claire Fox 22 Digging deeper What Mary Beard brings to TV

Peter Jones 25 Investment special

Judi Bevan, Alex Brummer and Tim Price

BOOKS & ARTS

Books 32 Polly Toynbee The New Few,

by Ferdinand Mount 34 Margaret Drabble AnAcademic Question,

by Barbara Pym Justin Cartwright Pure, by Timothy Mo 35 Lewis Jones

Dreaming in French, by Alice Kaplan; As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh, by Susan Sontag 37 Bookends

Marcus Berkmann 38 Sophia Waugh The Red House, by Mark Haddon 39 Emma Clark Sacred Land, by Martin Palmer

Cover by Christian Adams. Drawings by Michael Heath, Castro, Ian Tovey, Nick Newman, Mazurke, RGJ, Geoff Thompson, Kipper Williams, Adam Singleton, Grizelda, Steve Way, Sally Artz, Mazurke, Tony Husband, Paul Wood, Len, Nick Downes and Bernie.www.spectator.co.uk To subscribe to The Spectator for £104 a year, turn to page 55 Editorial and advertising The Spectator, 22 Old Queen Street, London SW1H 9HP, Tel: 020 7961 0200, Fax: 020 7681 3773, 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 7681 3773 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 7681 3773, Email: dstam@spectator.co.uk Distributor COMAG Specialist, Tavistock Works, Tavistock Road, West Drayton, Middlesex UB7 7QX Vol 319; no 9584 © 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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