Wagner’s new backing group, p11

Kim’s game, p45

Inside Ukip, p16

THE WEEK

5 Leading article 9 Portrait of the Week 11 Diary Wagner, the LSE

and Eddie Redmayne Miriam Gross 14 Ancient and modern Hyperides and Sir Malcolm Rifkind 17 Rod Liddle Bitter about Rowntree 18 Barometer Perils for planespotters 20 From the archive

Too short for the trenches? 29 Matthew Parris On acid and art 30 Hugo Rifkind The nasty party 31 Letters Scottish disasters; preserving

Paolozzi; how to use a wood stove 33 Any other business

Bank bosses beware Martin Vander Weyer

Kate Chisholm returns next week.

BOOKS & ARTS

12 PCs gone bad

Why we may no longer have the cleanest police in the world Neil Darbyshire 13 Roy Kelly ‘Up at the Villa’: a poem 14 Can Mama take it?

A Muslim charity under siege Nick Cohen 16 What Ukip wants

Inside the party’s new Mayfair HQ Sebastian Payne 18 Osborne’s northern exposure

An interview with the Chancellor James Forsyth 20 The empire-builders In defence of Putin’s foreign policy

With the militia in eastern Ukraine Paul Wood BOOKS 38 Philip Hensher Mark Rothko, by Annie Cohen-Solal 40 Peter J. Conradi Pinkoes and Traitors, by Jean Seaton 41 Mark Mason The Temple of Perfection, by Eric Chaline Mark Cocker Gods of the Morning, by John Lister-Kaye 42 Tim Butcher Death in the Congo, by Emmanuel Gerard and Bruce Kuklick 43 Nick Cohen Accidence Will Happen, by Oliver Kamm 44 Louis Amis This House of Grief, by Helen Garner 45 Viv Groskop A Kim Jong-il Production, by Paul Fischer 46 Leyla Sanai The Faithful Couple, by A.D. Miller Tibor Fischer The Soul of the Marionette, by John Gray

Peter Hitchens 23 ‘Flaunt it’ feminism

Fighting the male gaze with breasts Cosmo Landesman 24 Notes from a ceasefire

47 Christopher Bray

Sartre, by Thomas R. Flynn

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