COLUMNS
Christopher Howse’s Notebook
‘I changed to a room with a horse chestnut outside, which didn’t even rustle in the wind’ / 5
Madoc Cairns
‘The incipient collapse of the UK economy … extracts barely a peep from bishops’ / 9
REGULARS
Word from
the Cloisters 15
Puzzles
15
Letters 16 The Living Spirit 17
CONTENTS
5 NOVEMBER 2022 // VOL 276 NO. 9476
FEATURES
4 / Crisis? What crisis?
The roots of the United Kingdom’s current muddle lie deep in imperial history. Britain must alter the way it is governed if it is to survive / BY NICOLAS BOYLE
6 / Dancing with the devil
As the November midterms approach in the US, the Democrats may have misjudged the issues that most concern voters / BY MICHAEL SEAN WINTERS
8 / The tangled roots of abuse
A government inquiry has laid bare the life-long impact of child abuse. Is it now time to invest more resources into prevention? / BY GWEN ADSHEAD
10 / The Tablet Interview: Barbara Dickson
Scotland’s best-selling female singer and actress says that her life has always been infused by faith / BY PETER STANFORD
12 / Unauthorised versions
There are more different translations of the Bible in English than in any other language, and all are the creation of fallible scholars / BY JOHN BARTON
NEWS
24 / The Church in the World / News briefing 25 / ‘Address women’s role in Church life’
27 / View from Rome
28 / News from Britain and Ireland / News briefing
29 / Cause opens for World War I hero, Fr Willie Doyle
COVER: STEPHEN REID; ALAMY/RAGGEDSTONE
BOOKS / PAGE 18
Anne Chisholm
A Private Spy:
The Letters of
John le Carré
ED. TIM CORNWELL
The Secret Heart:
John le Carré, an
Intimate Memoir
SULEIKA DAWSON
Bruce Clark
After the Romanovs:
Russian Exiles
in Paris between
the Wars
HELEN RAPPAPORT
Guy Stagg
The Posthumous
Papers of the
Manuscripts Club
CHRISTOPHER
DE HAMEL
ARTS / PAGE 21
Exhibition
The Afterlife of
Mary Queen of
Scots
JOANNA MOORHEAD
Theatre
Mary
MARK LAWSON
Cinema
Living ISABELLE GREY
Music
Mahler Symphony
No. 8; An Anatomy of Melancholy ALEXANDRA
COGHLAN
