An interesting failure, p40
Freedom in a cell block, p20
RIP ‘Goldfinger’, p25
THE WEEK
3 Leading article 6 Portrait of the Week 7 Diary Judging poetry, painting pictures and being abused on Twitter Andrew Marr 9 The Spectator’s Notes
Do royals have no human rights when it comes to banking? Charles Moore 15 Rod Liddle A vicious reaction to a very bad word 16 Ancient and modern
Why property’s not theft 20 Barometer The joy of Sixtus,
mine decline and golf-ball wages 21 Hugo Rifkind Middle-class problems 23 James Delingpole The Mogg for PM 24 Letters Britain’s decline, a new kind of news and why Rod’s just wrong 25 Any other business
No cash, no problem? Martin Vander Weyer
10 First, stop Boris
The Tory leadership contest is starting with an assassination bid James Forsyth 11 Neil Powell ‘Back Numbers’: a poem 12 A junior scandal
There’s still no smoking gun in the Trump-Russia story Paul Wood 14 Deal or no deal The EU is playing games over Brexit
Markus Krall 16 Game changers Nationality and sport’s ‘Plastic Brits’
Simon Barnes 19 Mixed blessings Japan’s eclectic attitude to faith
Gary Dexter 20 Free as a jailbird In prison, I found a strange liberation
David Adams 22 The lesson of Liu Xiaobo China’s brave dying dissident
Jonathan Mirsky Letter to my uncle (contd) Sebastian Vella
BOOKS & ARTS
BOOKS 26 Sam Leith
The Great Nadar, by Adam Begley 28 Andreas Campomar
Zama, by Antonio di Benedetto Tim Martin
Phone, by Will Self 29 Dominic Cummings
Destined for War, by Graham Allison 30 Viv Groskop
Other Russias, by Victoria Lomasko Mark Cocker Shark Drunk, by Morten Strøksnes 31 Jeff Noon
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