Soane rangers, p27
The right side of history, p19
BOOKS & ARTS
BOOKS 24 Lucasta Miller
Christopher Isherwood Inside Out, by Katherine Bucknell 26 Nick Macpherson
Inside Thatcher’s Monetarism Experiment, by Tim Lankester Mike Jakeman
The Racket, by Conor Niland 27 Tim Newark
John Soane’s Cabinet of Curiosities, by Bruce Boucher 28 Leyla Sanai
The Body in the Library, by Graham Coveney Christopher James
‘The Collector of Lawnmowers’: a poem Elizabeth Goldring Six Lives, by Charlotte Bolland 29 Stuart Kelly
Nature’s Ghosts, by Sophie Yeo ARTS 32 Richard Bratby speaks to Cal McCrystal about his quest to make opera-goers laugh 34 Theatre Marie Curie: The Musical; Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder! Lloyd Evans 35 Television Putin v Greenpeace; The Truth vs. Alex Jones James Walton 36 The gamer Sam Leith Pop Beth Gibbons; The Zombies; St Vincent Michael Hann 37 Cinema Freud’s Last Session Deborah Ross 38 Exhibitions Discover Degas & Miss La La Laura Gascoigne 39 Classical music Benjamin Grosvenor at the Proms Damian Thompson
Fight Me, by Austin Grossman 30 Marcus Nevitt
The Secret Lecturer, by Anon Caspar Henderson
CONTRIBUTORS
40 Dance
Sarasota Ballet Rupert Christiansen 41 Australian Arts
Peter Craven
LIFE
LIFE 42 Still life Catriona Olding 43 Real life Melissa Kite 44 The turf Robin Oakley Bridge Janet de Botton 45 Aussie Life John Coleman
Language Kel Richards AND FINALLY . . . 46 Chess Luke McShane
Competition Victoria Lane 47 Crossword 48 No sacred cows
Toby Young Battle for Britain Michael Heath 49 Sport
Roger Alton Your problems solved Mary Killen 50 Food
Tanya Gold Mind your language Dot Wordsworth 51 Disastrous governments in
Washington and Canberra Parties neutralise constitutional remedies David Flint
Natasha Feroze, who writes about Keith Vaz’s unlikely comeback on p12, is The Spectator’s deputy broadcast editor.
Louise Perry is the author of The Case Against the Sexual Revolution and host of the podcast Maiden Mother Matriarch. She explores the new eugenics on p20.
Lucasta Miller discusses the life and art of Christopher Isherwood on p24. Her most recent book is Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph.
Nick Macpherson is an ex-permanent secretary to the Treasury and the chairman of C. Hoare & Co. He welcomes an insider’s view of monetarism on p26.
Elizabeth Goldring, who reassesses Henry VIII’s wives on p28, is a scholar of Renaissance portraiture and author of Nicholas Hilliard: Life of an Artist.
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