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Full blast, p22 Driving force, p20 Saddle up, p32 LIFE ARTS 40 Calvin Po reviews the Stirling Prize nominees 42 Pop American Football; Gruff Rhys/Jane Weaver Michael Hann 44 Cinema The Substance Zoe Strimpel 45 Television Nightsleeper; Strictly Come Dancing James Walton Daniel Hardisty ‘Regolith’: a poem 46 Exhibitions Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers Laura Gascoigne 47 Classical music Prom 72; Wang, Lapwood, LSO, Pappano Damian Thompson 48 Theatre Why Am I So Single?; 23.5 Hours Lloyd Evans 49 The listener Fontaines D.C.: Romance Rod Liddle LIFE 53 Lost life Sebastian Shakespeare 54 Real life Melissa Kite 55 The turf Robin Oakley Bridge Susanna Gross 57 The Vintage Chef Olivia Potts AND FINALLY . . . 50 Notes on… Corkscrews Henry Jeffreys 58 Chess Luke McShane Competition Victoria Lane 59 Crossword La Jerezana 60 No sacred cows Toby Young Battle for Britain Michael Heath 61 Sport Roger Alton Your problems solved Mary Killen 62 Food Tanya Gold Mind your language Dot Wordsworth The Queen gazed fondly at her son’s delightfully ditsy speech with exactly the same ‘Aw w, bless’ look on her face I sported when I realised my son might have left my stolen car’s window open. Maureen Lipman, p9 I have spent most of the morning tr ying to convince people online that Huw Edwards’s conviction does not mean that all, or even a majorit y, of Welsh people are sexually attracted to children. Rod Liddle, p15 There is nothing like being brought up in the 1980s by self-proclaimed ‘radical vegans’ to drive you into the arms of the church. Matthew Hall, p18 CONTRIBUTORS Dame Maureen Lipman, who writes this week’s Diary on p9, is an actress, writer and comedian. She plays Evelyn Plummer in Coronation Street. Matthew Hall, who on p18 warns against copying Canada’s assisted-dying laws, is the author of the Jenny Cooper crime fiction series. Adrian Pascu-Tulbure, who writes about the pleasure of driving a dilapidated car on p20, is a councillor for Parsons Green and Sandford in Hammersmith and Fulham. Susanna Forrest reviews a new book about how horses shape history on p32. She is the author of If Wishes Were Horses: A Memoir of Equine Obsession. Max Décharné is a musician who has played at Madison Square Garden. He reviews Sean Egan’s biography of Small Faces on p38. the spectator | 21 september 2024 | www.spectator.co.uk 5

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Full blast, p22

Driving force, p20

Saddle up, p32

LIFE

ARTS 40 Calvin Po reviews the Stirling Prize nominees 42 Pop

American Football; Gruff Rhys/Jane Weaver Michael Hann 44 Cinema

The Substance Zoe Strimpel 45 Television

Nightsleeper; Strictly Come Dancing James Walton Daniel Hardisty ‘Regolith’: a poem 46 Exhibitions

Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers Laura Gascoigne 47 Classical music

Prom 72; Wang, Lapwood, LSO, Pappano Damian Thompson 48 Theatre

Why Am I So Single?; 23.5 Hours Lloyd Evans 49 The listener

Fontaines D.C.: Romance Rod Liddle

LIFE 53 Lost life Sebastian Shakespeare 54 Real life Melissa Kite 55 The turf Robin Oakley

Bridge Susanna Gross 57 The Vintage Chef Olivia Potts AND FINALLY . . . 50 Notes on… Corkscrews

Henry Jeffreys 58 Chess Luke McShane

Competition Victoria Lane 59 Crossword La Jerezana 60 No sacred cows

Toby Young Battle for Britain Michael Heath 61 Sport

Roger Alton Your problems solved Mary Killen 62 Food

Tanya Gold Mind your language Dot Wordsworth

The Queen gazed fondly at her son’s delightfully ditsy speech with exactly the same ‘Aw w, bless’ look on her face I sported when I realised my son might have left my stolen car’s window open. Maureen Lipman, p9

I have spent most of the morning tr ying to convince people online that Huw Edwards’s conviction does not mean that all, or even a majorit y, of Welsh people are sexually attracted to children. Rod Liddle, p15

There is nothing like being brought up in the 1980s by self-proclaimed ‘radical vegans’ to drive you into the arms of the church. Matthew Hall, p18

CONTRIBUTORS

Dame Maureen Lipman, who writes this week’s Diary on p9, is an actress, writer and comedian. She plays Evelyn Plummer in Coronation Street.

Matthew Hall, who on p18 warns against copying Canada’s assisted-dying laws, is the author of the Jenny Cooper crime fiction series.

Adrian Pascu-Tulbure, who writes about the pleasure of driving a dilapidated car on p20, is a councillor for Parsons Green and Sandford in Hammersmith and Fulham.

Susanna Forrest reviews a new book about how horses shape history on p32. She is the author of If Wishes Were Horses: A Memoir of Equine Obsession.

Max Décharné is a musician who has played at Madison Square Garden. He reviews Sean Egan’s biography of Small Faces on p38.

the spectator | 21 september 2024 | www.spectator.co.uk

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