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Newcomb’s nature, p43 3 Leading articles 7 Portrait of the Week 9 Diary Harry Mount 10 Politics James Forsyth 11 The Spectator’s Notes 14 Barometer 17 Rod Liddle 19 Ancient and modern 23 James Delingpole 24 Hugo Rifkind 26 Letters 28 Any other business Martin Vander Weyer 53 High life Taki Low life Jeremy Clarke 55 Real life Melissa Kite Long life Alexander Chancellor 56 The turf Robin Oakley 57 Bridge Susanna Gross 58 Chess Raymond Keene Competition; Crossword 60 Status anxiety Toby Young Dave Michael Heath 61 The Wiki Man Rory Sutherland Your problems solved Mary Killen 62 Drink Bruce Anderson Mind your language Dot Wordsworth Strange fruit, p35 Cultivating suspicion, p11 12 The only way is shale Cameron must act now to avoid an energy crisis Peter Lilley 13 Michael Bayley ‘War Stories’: a poem 14 Black diamonds Among South Africa’s new rich Aidan Hartley 16 ‘I don’t want to be normal’ A conversation with Julie Burchill Toby Young 18 American notebook Geoffrey Wheatcroft 19 Not-so-great Gatsby The faults in Fitzgerald’s classic Douglas Murray 20 Unintended consequences The one law we can never repeal Stephen Pollard Boks 30 Jane Ridley Perilous Question, by Antonia Fraser 33 Peter Parker The Hermit in the Garden, by Gordon Campbell 34 James Walton And the Mountains Echoed, by Khaled Hosseini Matthew Parris Beyond the Malachite Hills, by Jonathan Lawley; Last Man In, by John Hare 35 Oliver Rackham The Tradescants’ Orchard, by Barry Juniper 36 David Crane on the young Winston Churchill 37 Wynn Wheldon Holloway, by Robert Macfarlane Christopher Howse The Serpent’s Promise, by Steve Jones 38 Jonathan Rugman A Dangerous Delusion, by Peter Oborne Arts 39 Interview The comic-book writer Mark Millar Peter Hoskin 41 Pop Marcus Berkmann 42 Opera Joshua; Don Carlo Michael Tanner 43 Exhibitions Calder after the War; The Physicality of Seeing: Sculpture by Eilís O’Connell; Mary Newcomb Andrew Lambirth 44 The Springtime of the Renaissance Harry Mount 45 Cinema Star Trek Into Darkness David Blackburn 47 Theatre The Weir; The Tempest Lloyd Evans 48 Television Clarissa Tan 49 Radio Kate Chisholm Culture notes Peter Hoskin Cover by Morten Morland. Drawings by Michael Heath, Castro, Grizelda, Bernie, RGJ, WS, Nick Newman, Adam Singleton, Len Hawkins, Cookson, NAF, Mike Turner, Len, K.J. Lamb and Kipper Williams. www.spectator.co.uk To subscribe to The Spectator for £104 a year, turn to page 46 Editorial and advertising The Spectator, 22 Old Queen Street, London SW1H 9HP, Tel: 020 7961 0200, Fax: 020 7681 3773, Email: editor@spectator.co.uk (editorial); letters@spectator.co.uk (for publication); advertising@spectator.co.uk (advertising); Advertising enquiries: 020 7961 0219 Advertising fax: 020 7681 3773 Subscription and delivery queries Spectator Subscriptions Dept., 800 Guillat Avenue, Kent Science Park, Sittingbourne ME9 8GU; Tel: 01795 592886 Fax: 0870 220 0290; Email: spectator@ servicehelpline.co.uk Newsagent queries Spectator Circulation Dept, 22 Old Queen Street, London SW1H 9HP, Tel: 020 7961 0200, Fax: 020 7681 3773, Email: dstam@ spectator.co.uk Distributor COMAG Specialist, Tavistock Works, Tavistock Road, West Drayton, Middlesex UB7 7QX Vol 322; no 9637 © The Spectator (1828) Ltd. ISSN 0038-6952 The Spectator is published weekly by The Spectator (1828) Ltd at 22 Old Queen Street, London SW1H 9HP Editor: Fraser Nelson the spectator | 11 may 2013 | www.spectator.co.uk 5

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Newcomb’s nature, p43

3 Leading articles 7 Portrait of the Week 9 Diary Harry Mount 10 Politics James Forsyth 11 The Spectator’s Notes 14 Barometer 17 Rod Liddle 19 Ancient and modern 23 James Delingpole 24 Hugo Rifkind 26 Letters 28 Any other business Martin Vander Weyer 53 High life Taki Low life Jeremy Clarke 55 Real life Melissa Kite Long life Alexander Chancellor 56 The turf Robin Oakley 57 Bridge Susanna Gross 58 Chess Raymond Keene Competition; Crossword 60 Status anxiety Toby Young Dave Michael Heath 61 The Wiki Man Rory Sutherland Your problems solved Mary Killen 62 Drink Bruce Anderson Mind your language Dot Wordsworth

Strange fruit, p35

Cultivating suspicion, p11

12 The only way is shale

Cameron must act now to avoid an energy crisis Peter Lilley 13 Michael Bayley

‘War Stories’: a poem 14 Black diamonds

Among South Africa’s new rich Aidan Hartley 16 ‘I don’t want to be normal’

A conversation with Julie Burchill Toby Young 18 American notebook

Geoffrey Wheatcroft 19 Not-so-great Gatsby

The faults in Fitzgerald’s classic Douglas Murray 20 Unintended consequences

The one law we can never repeal Stephen Pollard Boks 30 Jane Ridley Perilous Question,

by Antonia Fraser 33 Peter Parker The Hermit in the

Garden, by Gordon Campbell 34 James Walton And the Mountains

Echoed, by Khaled Hosseini Matthew Parris Beyond the

Malachite Hills, by Jonathan Lawley; Last Man In, by John Hare

35 Oliver Rackham The Tradescants’

Orchard, by Barry Juniper 36 David Crane on the young

Winston Churchill 37 Wynn Wheldon

Holloway, by Robert Macfarlane Christopher Howse The Serpent’s

Promise, by Steve Jones 38 Jonathan Rugman A Dangerous

Delusion, by Peter Oborne Arts 39 Interview The comic-book writer Mark Millar

Peter Hoskin 41 Pop Marcus Berkmann 42 Opera Joshua; Don Carlo

Michael Tanner 43 Exhibitions Calder after the War;

The Physicality of Seeing: Sculpture by Eilís O’Connell; Mary Newcomb Andrew Lambirth 44 The Springtime of the Renaissance

Harry Mount 45 Cinema Star Trek Into Darkness

David Blackburn 47 Theatre The Weir; The Tempest

Lloyd Evans 48 Television Clarissa Tan 49 Radio Kate Chisholm Culture notes Peter Hoskin

Cover by Morten Morland. Drawings by Michael Heath, Castro, Grizelda, Bernie, RGJ, WS, Nick Newman, Adam Singleton, Len Hawkins, Cookson, NAF, Mike Turner, Len, K.J. Lamb and Kipper Williams. www.spectator.co.uk To subscribe to The Spectator for £104 a year, turn to page 46 Editorial and advertising The Spectator, 22 Old Queen Street, London SW1H 9HP, Tel: 020 7961 0200, Fax: 020 7681 3773, Email: editor@spectator.co.uk (editorial); letters@spectator.co.uk (for publication); advertising@spectator.co.uk (advertising); Advertising enquiries: 020 7961 0219 Advertising fax: 020 7681 3773 Subscription and delivery queries Spectator Subscriptions Dept., 800 Guillat Avenue, Kent Science Park, Sittingbourne ME9 8GU; Tel: 01795 592886 Fax: 0870 220 0290; Email: spectator@ servicehelpline.co.uk Newsagent queries Spectator Circulation Dept, 22 Old Queen Street, London SW1H 9HP, Tel: 020 7961 0200, Fax: 020 7681 3773, Email: dstam@ spectator.co.uk Distributor COMAG Specialist, Tavistock Works, Tavistock Road, West Drayton, Middlesex UB7 7QX Vol 322; no 9637 © The Spectator (1828) Ltd. ISSN 0038-6952 The Spectator is published weekly by The Spectator (1828) Ltd at 22 Old Queen Street, London SW1H 9HP Editor: Fraser Nelson the spectator | 11 may 2013 | www.spectator.co.uk

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