Sticking points, p3

Dances with Degas, p45

3 Leading article 7 Portrait of the Week 9 Diary Clarissa Tan 10 Politics James Forsyth 11 The Spectator’s Notes 13 Barometer 17 Rod Liddle 24 Hugo Rifkind 26 Letters 29 Any other business Martin Vander Weyer 53 High life Taki Low life Jeremy Clarke 55 Real life Melissa Kite 56 Wild life Aidan Hartley 57 Bridge Susanna Gross 58 Chess Raymond Keene 59 Competition;Crossword 60 Status anxiety Toby Young Dave Michael Heath 61 The Wiki Man Rory Sutherland Your problems solved Mary Killen 62 Drink Bruce Anderson Mind your language

12 Bailout country Rage and fear in Athens and Berlin

Faisal Islam 14 Be my baby Men are turning into toddlers

Sophie Heath 18 In praise of the police They still get it right – in some places

Leo McKinstry 20 How to fix orphanages

Really, the only way is to close them Mary Wakefield 23 Life and letters An interview with Diana Athill

Victoria Lane Books 32 Philip Hensher Charles Dickens:

A Life, by Claire Tomalin 35 Andrew Gimson

Just Boris, by Sonia Purnell Richard Davenport-Hines

But What Do You Actually Do?, by Alistair Horne 36 James Mather ‘Orientalist Jones’,

by Michael J. Franklin 37 John Laughland A Train in Winter,

by Caroline Moorehead Alistair Elliot ‘Heraclea

Caccabaria’: a poem

38 Cressida Connolly Instead of a

Book, by Diana Athill Anita Brookner The Betrayal of

Trust, by Susan Hill 39 Andrew Taylor The Killer is Dying,

by James Sallis Bookends Sophia Waugh Arts 40 William Cook A northern renaissance 43 Opera Street Scene; Madama Butterfly

Michael Tanner Pop Marcus Berkmann 44 Cinema Tyrannosaur

Deborah Ross 45 Exhibitions Degas and the Ballet:

Picturing Movement Andrew Lambirth 46 Architecture Alan Powers 47 Theatre The Playboy of the Western

World; Terrible Advice Lloyd Evans Radio Kate Chisholm 49 Television James Delingpole

Culture notes James Savage-Hanford

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