Cruz uncontrolled, p20
The Pope says yadda, yadda, yadda, p18
A liquid history, p32
THE WEEK
5 Leading article 8 Portrait of the Week 9 Diary My brother’s taxes
Rachel Johnson 11 The Spectator’s Notes
Welby, Cameron and the banks Charles Moore 13 Politics Cameron’s exit strategy
James Forsyth 17 Matthew Parris I’m with the mob 18 Barometer Pay cuts, tax evasion and the lives of animals 20 From the archive
A quiet day in the trenches 23 Ancient and modern
Tax returns to boast about 25 Hugo Rifkind Cameron v. Mugabe 26 Letters The Prince of Wales,
Fay Weldon and fear of electricity 27 Any other business Refocus the
Panama story on what really matters Martin Vander Weyer
Rod Liddle is away.
14 Sex, lies and tax returns
The sinister new face of scandal Richard Littlejohn 15 Candy Neubert ‘Sycamore’: a poem 16 Just join Germany It’s the only really good bit of the EU
Nigel Farndale 18 The battle of Francis’s footnote What the Pope said about divorce
Damian Thompson 20 The politician’s daughter Why I love Caroline Cruz
Sarah MacKinlay 22 The cult of clean First it’s socks, then it’s opinions
Laura Freeman 24 Caught in the tourist trap The future of travel excludes you
Sean Thomas
BOOKS & ARTS
BOOKS 31 Justin Marozzi Lawrence of
Arabia, by Neil Faulkner 32 Dominic Green The Struggle for Sea Power, by Sam Willis 33 Helen R. Brown
All at Sea, by Decca Aitkenhead Candy Neubert
‘Departure Lounge’: a poem 34 Ian Birrell on Syria Christopher Howse
The Santiago Pilgrimage, by Jean-Christophe Rufin 35 Steven Poole The Great
Acceleration, by Robert Colvile; Smarter Faster Better, by Charles Duhigg 36 Justin Cartwright
The Cauliflower, by Nicola Barker 37 Alastair Smart Sketchbooks,
by Grayson Perry Anne Chisholm A House Full of
Daughters, by Juliet Nicolson 39 Jude Cook All That Man Is,
by David Szalay
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