Wish he could fly?, p17

Klan with a plan, p25

THE WEEK

3 Leading article 7 Portrait of the Week 9 Diary A cancer research revolution

Alexander Masters 11 Politics The Tories’ next defeat

Isabel Hardman 17 Rod Liddle Let our jihadis go! 25 Barometer Crime, loans and sandwiches 29 Matthew Parris

The pleasures of a real newspaper 30 Hugo Rifkind Doing my duty by Dapper Laughs From the archives Casualty report 32 Letters Italy, Joan Littlewood and the Nightingale touch 35 Any other business Why I’m glad there’s no British Las Vegas Martin Vander Weyer

Beaton gold, p64

BOOKS & ARTS

THE DEATH OF THE LEFT 12 On the wrong side of history

Dumping Ed Miliband won’t solve Labour’s deep problems James Forsyth 13 Lost Labour

What’s happened to my party? Tanya Gold

14 The marriage gap

One crucial difference between the rich and the poor is how they love Fraser Nelson 20 The kidnapping business How Islamic State commanders milk their hostages Paul Wood 22 Signs of contempt Beautiful places are being ruined by

Where economics meets stand-up Liam Halligan Christmas Boks I 38 Books of the Year 45 Mark Cocker Ten Million Aliens, by Simon Barnes 46 Connie Bensley Life, Love and the Archers, by Wendy Cope Andrew Taylor on crime fiction 47 Hugh Thomas Imprudent King, by Geoffrey Parker 49 Nicky Haslam Elsa Schiaparelli, by Meryle Secrest; Vivienne Westwood, by Vivienne Westwood 50 Joanna Kavenna Some Luck, by Jane Smiley 51 Alexander Fiske-Harrison Taking Command, by General David Richards Gary Dexter Title Stories 52 Robert Douglas-Fairhurst Not My Father’s Son, by Alan Cumming Peter Scupham ‘Goodman’s Garden’: a poem 53 Lewis Jones Severed, by Frances Larson 54 Daniel Hahn Lingo, by Gaston Dorren patronising efforts to ‘widen access’ Harry Mount 25 Hug a hoodie? Meet the men trying to rebrand the Ku Klux Klan Tom Leonard 28 Kilkenny notebook

55 Robert Gore-Langton The Old Vic,

by Terry Coleman; Closely Observed Theatre, by Jonathan Croall

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