A fresh crop of subsidies, p22
Getting into the cabinet, p60
The paintings of Beryl Bainbridge, p35
THE WEEK
3 Leading article 7 Portrait of the Week 9 Diary Ben Goldsmith 10 Politics James Forsyth 11 The Spectator’s Notes 21 Steerpike 22 Ancient and modern 24 Barometer 26 Hugo Rifkind 28 Letters 31 Any other business Martin Vander Weyer
Rod Liddle and Deborah Ross are away.
BOOKS & ARTS
12 The coming siege Israel is right to be anxious about how its region is changing Douglas Murray 13 John Gohorry
‘The effects of rain’: a poem 14 Save our speech
There must not be statutory control of the press Stephen Glover 16 Backbench driver
An interview with former crime and justice minister Nick Herbert James Forsyth 18 Going overboard L. Ron Hubbard’s Corfu adventure
Thomas Hodgkinson 20 Cooking for freedom A chef fights al-Qa’eda in Somalia
The winners — and why they won Christmas Books I 34 Books of the Year 38 Charles Duff In Search of Rex Whistler, by Hugh and Mirabel Cecil 42 Peter Oborne Cruel Britannia, by Ian Cobain 43 Anthony Sattin There was a Country, by Chinua Achebe 45 Bevis Hillier Constellation of Genius, by Kevin Jackson 47 Wynn Wheldon Greater London, by Nick Barratt 48 A.N. Wilson Counting One’s Blessings, edited by William Shawcross 49 Anne Chisholm Dear Life, by Alice Munro 51 Rachel Redford The Complete Remembrance of Things Past, read by Neville Jason 52 Alexander Starritt Roads to Berlin, by Cees Nooteboom 55 Martin Vander Weyer How Do We Fix This Mess?, by Robert Peston and Laurence Knight
Aidan Hartley 22 The great British wind scam A subsidy meant for small turbines is instead making big ones less efficient Sebastian Payne 24 Parliamentarian of the Year
Bookends Marcus Berkmann
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