Evolution of the taxi, p62
He probably smells of cabbage, p32
THE WEEK
3 Leading article 7 Portrait of the Week 9 Diary Corsica to Manor House
Tom Holland 10 Politics What Brexit means for Europe James Forsyth 17 Rod Liddle Do black lives matter at Notting Hill Carnival? 20 Barometer Burkinis, drowning,
GCSEs and empty trains 24 From the archive
That rotter Churchill 25 Matthew Parris
My fascist moment on the Amazon 26 Hugo Rifkind Dances with Balls 27 Letters Boris, Dave, HS2, and the National Lottery’s real dad 28 Any other business TTIP shows the trouble with Brexit trade dreams Martin Vander Weyer
Charles Moore, Martin Gayford, Peter Jones and Deborah Ross are away.
Capitalising on the King, p42
BOOKS & ARTS
12 Sweden’s own refugee crisis
We’re very good at letting them in, but not at integrating them Tove Lifvendahl 13 John Levett
‘A Cardboard Witch’: a poem 14 Hillary and the haters She still has a clear path to defeat
Freddy Gray 18 Warrant for alarm
Will Brexit mean justice? Stephen Pollard 20 Save the whale-hunt!
A Faroese heavy metal star writes Heri Joensen 23 China’s banned beauty queen
From earthquakes to plagues of rats Nicholas Farrell BOOKS 30 Steven Poole Homo Deus, by Yuval Noah Harari; Make Way for the Superhumans, by Michael Bess 32 Andrew Barrow Playing FTSE, by Penelope Jacobs Francis Wheen Orwell’s Nose, by John Sutherland 33 Ismene Brown Wrights and Wrongs, by Peter Wright 34 Lewis Jones I’m Not One to Gossip, But..., by John McEntee Daniel Swift Nutshell, by Ian McEwan 35 Simon Heffer The Pursuit of Power, by Richard J. Evans 36 Jonathan McAloon Fen, by Daisy Johnson; Hot Little Hands, by Abigail Ulman;The Bed Moved, by Rebecca Schiff Duncan Fallowell Last Year in
She campaigns on organ harvesting Lara Prendergast 24 Italian notebook
Marienbad: A Film as Art, edited by Christoph Grunenberg 37 Andy Miller I’ll Sell You a Dog,
by Juan Pablo Villalobos
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