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Deals with the devil, p17 Paths to Civilisation, p51 Grace notes, p52 THE WEEK 5 Leading article 9 Portrait of the Week 11 Diary Flying visits Irvine Welsh 12 Politics Nigel Farage, moderniser James Forsyth 13 The Spectator’s Notes Juncker, moths and ‘Plebgate’ Charles Moore 15 Barometer Europe’s retiring monarchs 17 Rod Liddle Time to quit Fifa 20 Ancient and modern Caesar and Farage 27 Mary Wakefield Confessions of a thirtysomething patriot 28 James Delingpole Ukip’s ideological crisis 30 Letters Atheism, Army education and Ken Loach 32 Any other business Scotland’s sensible young pessimists Martin Vander Weyer Kate Chisholm is away. BOOKS & ARTS 14 Fin de siècle Why France’s fifth republic could be drawing to a close Patrick Marnham 16 D-Day notebook Robert Hardman 19 Witness to a stoning Seeing justice done in Saudi Arabia Tom Stacey 20 Heavy mob The trouble with slimming clubs Carol Sarler 23 Keeper of the secrets Putin’s strategy is smoke and mirrors John O’Sullivan Boks 36 Peter Parker A Strange Kind of Paradise, by Sam Miller 38 Wynn Wheldon New Selected Poems, by P.J. Kavanagh Daisy Dunn Kingmaker: Winter Pilgrims, by Toby Clements 39 Melanie McDonagh on children’s books 40 Jane Ridley Dirty Bertie, by Stephen Clarke John Preston Escape Velocity, edited by Jay Jennings 41 Ben Hamilton In the Approaches, by Nicola Barker Mark Mason Field of Shadows, by Dan Waddell 42 John Akeroyd Meadowland, Churchill’s remarkable daughter Alistair Horne 24 Moscow’s Wizard of Oz by John Lewis-Stempel 43 Jonathan Keates Darkling, by Laura Beatty David Grubb ‘When the Rains Came’: a poem Nigel Prentice ‘Research Centre’: a poem 44 Clare Mulley The Cruel Victory, by Paddy Ashdown Harry Mount Laughter in Ancient Rome, by Mary Beard Cover by Morten Morland. Drawings by Michael Heath, Castro, Phil Disley, Holland, Kipper Williams, Grizelda, RGJ, Adam Singleton, Bernie, Nick Newman, Geoff Thompson, Hunter, Bill Proud, K.J. Lamb, Russell, Dish and Tony Husband. www.spectator.co.uk To subscribe to The Spectator for £104 a year, turn to page 62 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 0222 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 325; no 9693 © 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 6 the spectator | 7 june 2014 | www.spectator.co.uk
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In the royal archives, p57 LIFE 45 Ian Thomson Music Night at the Apollo, by Lilian Pizzichini Arts 47 Matthew Stadlen Interview with Nicola Benedetti 48 Music Peter Phillips 50 Video art Bill Viola in St Paul’s Cathedral Rachel Halliburton 51 Exhibitions Kenneth Clark: Looking for Civilisation Andrew Lambirth 52 Cinema Grace of Monaco Deborah Ross 53 Opera Dialogues des Carmélites; La Cenerentola Michael Tanner 54 Dance Vortex Temporum; Junior A Human Being Died That Night Lloyd Evans 57 Television James Walton Culture notes Lara Prendergast Life 61 High life Taki Low life Jeremy Clarke 62 Real life Melissa Kite 64 Long life Alexander Chancellor Bridge Susanna Gross And finaly . . . 66 Chess Raymond Keene Competition; Crossword 68 Status anxiety Toby Young Dave Michael Heath 68 The Wiki Man Rory Sutherland Your problems solved Mary Killen 70 Drink Bruce Anderson Mind your language Dot Wordsworth Company, Dutch National Ballet Giannandrea Poesio 55 Theatre Bakersfield Mist; Who Help to Buy helps, p32 The crowd – especially the old men – push and shove for a better view of the offenders losing their heads by the ceremonial sword Tom Stacey, p19 There is plenty of room for a book on Bach that points out, among other things, that he could be a tedious old windbag Peter Phillips, p48 I see bare bricks and I start hyperventilating. I don’t want to look at this Melissa Kite, p62 Contributors Irvine Welsh’s books include Trainspotting, Filth and, most recently, The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins. His diary is on p. 11. John O’Sullivan is director of the Danube Institute in Budapest and co-founder of Twenty-First Century Initiatives in Washington. He writes about Putin on p. 24. the spectator | 7 june 2014 | www.spectator.co.uk Jane Ridley is the author of Bertie: A Life of Edward VII. She reviews Stephen Clarke’s Diry Bertie on p. 40. Harry Mount is the author of Amo, Amas, Amat and All That. He writes about Mary Beard on p. 44. Clare Mulley’s life of Christine Granville, The Spy Who Loved, was published in 2012. Her review of Paddy Ashdown’s The Cruel Victory is on p. 44. 7

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Deals with the devil, p17

Paths to Civilisation, p51

Grace notes, p52

THE WEEK

5 Leading article 9 Portrait of the Week 11 Diary Flying visits

Irvine Welsh 12 Politics Nigel Farage, moderniser

James Forsyth 13 The Spectator’s Notes

Juncker, moths and ‘Plebgate’ Charles Moore 15 Barometer Europe’s retiring monarchs 17 Rod Liddle Time to quit Fifa 20 Ancient and modern

Caesar and Farage 27 Mary Wakefield Confessions of a thirtysomething patriot 28 James Delingpole Ukip’s ideological crisis 30 Letters Atheism, Army education and Ken Loach 32 Any other business Scotland’s sensible young pessimists Martin Vander Weyer

Kate Chisholm is away.

BOOKS & ARTS

14 Fin de siècle

Why France’s fifth republic could be drawing to a close Patrick Marnham 16 D-Day notebook

Robert Hardman 19 Witness to a stoning

Seeing justice done in Saudi Arabia Tom Stacey 20 Heavy mob The trouble with slimming clubs

Carol Sarler 23 Keeper of the secrets

Putin’s strategy is smoke and mirrors John O’Sullivan Boks 36 Peter Parker A Strange Kind of Paradise, by Sam Miller 38 Wynn Wheldon New Selected Poems, by P.J. Kavanagh Daisy Dunn Kingmaker: Winter Pilgrims, by Toby Clements 39 Melanie McDonagh on children’s books 40 Jane Ridley Dirty Bertie, by Stephen Clarke John Preston Escape Velocity, edited by Jay Jennings 41 Ben Hamilton In the Approaches, by Nicola Barker Mark Mason Field of Shadows, by Dan Waddell 42 John Akeroyd Meadowland,

Churchill’s remarkable daughter Alistair Horne 24 Moscow’s Wizard of Oz by John Lewis-Stempel 43 Jonathan Keates

Darkling, by Laura Beatty David Grubb

‘When the Rains Came’: a poem Nigel Prentice

‘Research Centre’: a poem 44 Clare Mulley The Cruel Victory,

by Paddy Ashdown Harry Mount Laughter in Ancient Rome, by Mary Beard

Cover by Morten Morland. Drawings by Michael Heath, Castro, Phil Disley, Holland, Kipper Williams, Grizelda, RGJ, Adam Singleton, Bernie, Nick Newman, Geoff Thompson, Hunter, Bill Proud, K.J. Lamb, Russell, Dish and Tony Husband. www.spectator.co.uk To subscribe to The Spectator for £104 a year, turn to page 62 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 0222 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 325; no 9693 © 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

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