Hacks and hacking, p14

End of terrace, p39

The new royal family, p16

THE WEEK

5 Leading article 9 Portrait of the Week 11 Diary Nick Cohen 16 Barometer 21 Rod Liddle 22 Ancient and modern 27 Matthew Parris 28 James Delingpole 31 Letters 33 Any other business Martin Vander Weyer

14 What the papers won’t say The shameful omertà

over phone-hacking Peter Oborne 16 Mad for the Middletons They’ve taken our royal family into a different class Sinclair McKay 18 Pushing back against Brussels An interview with David Cameron

James Forsyth and Fraser Nelson 19 Ian Harrow

‘Rotten Boroughs’: a poem 20 Degrees of optimism Taking America’s temperature through addresses to graduates Philip Delves Broughton 22 Krona capitalism

Sweden is waking up from its socialist dreamworld James Bartholomew 24 Thank God it’s Thursday

Whitehall’s four-day week Freddy Gray 30 Peckham Notebook Peter Robins

BOOKS & ARTS

Books 36 Philip Hensher Complete Stories, by Kingsley Amis 38 Paul Johnson Memoirs, by William Rees-Mogg Luke Wright ‘Three Children’: a poem 39 Jane Brown on Italian gardens 40 Matthew Parris The Last Slave

Market, by Alastair Hazell 41 Jane Ridley As Good as God, as

Clever as the Devil, by Rodney Bolt Michela Wrong The Other Barack, by Sally H. Jacobs 42 Simon Baker There But For The, by Ali Smith 43 Hywel Williams Forgotten Land, by Max Egremont 44 Justin Marozzi The Tao of Travel, by Paul Theroux Helen Mort ‘Caceri d’Invenzione’: a poem 45 Alexander Larman The Art of

Camping, by Matthew de Abaitua Bookends Lewis Jones

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