The waters of Mars, p16
How VW went off the rails,
p20 and p32
The curious appeal of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, p50
THE WEEK
5 Leading article 9 Portrait of the Week 11 Diary Me, Cherie and Katie Hopkins Piers Morgan 12 Politics Euroscepticism abroad
Douglas Murray 13 The Spectator’s Notes
Corbyn, Bexill and Sir Keith Joseph Charles Moore 16 Barometer Water in space;
breakfast in Shoreditch 17 Rod Liddle My Class War 20 Ancient and modern
The Cicero of the shadow cabinet 23 Matthew Parris The ruthless vote
From the archive Towards victory 29 Hugo Rifkind Labour’s collective irresponsibility 31 Letters Space slogans, right-wing rockers and angry doctors 32 Any other business Volkswagen,
Glencore and John McDonnell Martin Vander Weyer
Deborah Ross is away.
14 Boris: the wilderness years
He’s not yet officially running to be Tory leader. But he’s already losing James Forsyth 15 Connie Bensley ‘The Time of Shoring Up’: a poem 16 Saudi Arabia’s new Borgias
The princes are running wild John R. Bradley 18 Baby steps
The case against NCT classes Molly Ceglowski 20 Where there’s smoke…
Green guff and the VW scandal Ross Clark 22 How we can save the hedgehog
It starts with your garden Simon Barnes 24 Nicky Morgan’s relentless rise
The Education Secretary interviewed James Forsyth 26 Premier league
Cameron’s rank among Tory PMs Andrew Roberts 28 Fancy that Women’s TV crushes aren’t seedy
Mark Mason
BOOKS & ARTS
BOOKS 38 Craig Raine Ted Hughes:
The Unauthorised Life, by Jonathan Bate 40 Philip Mansel Frederick the Great:
King of Prussia, by Tim Blanning 42 Dominic Cummings
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction, by Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner 43 Peter Stothard Dictator,
by Robert Harris 44 Andy Miller Undermajordomo
Minor, by Patrick deWitt Rose George A Man’s World: The Double Life of Emile Griffith, by Donald McRae 45 Stuart Kelly The Gap of Time:
The Winter’s Tale Retold, by Jeanette Winterson Tim Martin The Story of the Lost Child, by Elena Ferrante
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