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Tel: 020 7930 6395 Jail regimes compared, p16

The weird world of John Waters, p35

5 Leading article 9 Portrait of the Week 11 Diary Geoffrey Wheatcroft 12 Politics James Forsyth 13 The Spectator’s Notes 16 Barometer 17 Rod Liddle 18 Ancient and modern 20 Matthew Parris 22 Mind your language 25 James Delingpole 26 Letters 28 Any other business Martin Vander Weyer 52 Chess Raymond Keene 53 Competition;Crossword 54 Status anxiety Toby Young

Dave Michael Heath 55 Sport Roger Alton Your problems solved Mary Killen

The exhibition catalogue of the dead, p39

14 Justice vs jihad Britain’s establishment still isn’t serious about fighting terror Douglas Murray 15 Robert Nye ‘Request’: a poem 16 Time for a new cod war Can celebrity chefs save our fish?

Stanley Johnson 18 Life of pie Manhattan’s unofficial British consul

Michael Henderson 22 On the bridge China’s lone Samaritan

Mike Paterniti 23 A rare, unvarnished honesty Pete Postlethwaite remembered

Bryan Forbes 24 At war with the Greeks America’s classicist militarists

Patrick Allitt Boks 30 Sam Leith The Invention of Murder,

by Judith Flanders 32 Piers Paul Read At Home with André and Simone

Weil, by Sylvie Weil Roy Kelly ‘Dandelion Clock’: a poem Ed Howker The Big Society, by Jesse Norman 33 Andrew Lambirth Sheila Fell, by Cate Haste

34 Caroline Moore Pulse, by Julian Barnes 35 Alberto Manguel Letters from London and Europe,

by Giuseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa Bookends Lloyd Evans Arts 37 Franz Liszt Damian Thompson on the highs and lows of a prolific composer 38 Pop Marcus Berkmann 39 Exhibitions Journey through the

Afterlife: Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead; Picasso to Julie Mehretu Andrew Lambirth 40 Theatre Season’s Greetings

Lloyd Evans 41 Cinema 127 Hours

Deborah Ross Opera Michael Tanner 42 Radio Kate Chisholm 43 Television Simon Hoggart Culture notes Ian Rankin Life 47 High life Taki Low life Jeremy Clarke 49 Real life Melissa Kite 50 The turf Robin Oakley 51 Motoring Alan Judd Bridge Janet de Botton

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