The alt-right and the art of the pick-up, p30
When cherry pineapple bologna was on the menu, p41
From Washington, indescribably depressed, p11
THE WEEK
5 Leading article 9 Portrait of the Week 11 Diary DC under Trump
Christopher Caldwell 13 The Spectator’s Notes
Nigel Farage; Supreme Court judges; independent inquiries Charles Moore 16 Barometer Palace renovations;
cryogenics; median incomes; selfies 19 Rod Liddle Prisons are too nice 26 Ancient and modern
Alternatives to democracy 28 From the archive Votes for women 29 Matthew Parris
A golden age of swearing 30 Hugo Rifkind From pick-up artists to the alt-right 33 Letters Prisons, the EU, the NHS,
school decline, love and conscription 34 Any other business Hammond’s mood music; Buckingham Palace; Brexit as toilet paper Martin Vander Weyer
BOOKS & ARTS
14 She’s got this
Events are shifting decisively in Theresa May’s favour James Forsyth 15 Fleur Adcock
‘Oscar and Henry’: a poem 16 In praise of Advent It’s more grown-up than Christmas
Ysenda Maxtone Graham 18 No Khan do
Trouble ahead for London’s mayor Andrew Gilligan 20 Fillon vs Le Pen
The battle France wasn’t expecting Patrick Marnham 22 Permanent ink
On post-mortem tattoo preservation Anne Jolis 25 The devil they know
On the workers’ elitist defenders Cosmo Landesman BOOKS 38 Alex Burghart on atlases 40 James Walton Television: A Biography, by David Thomson; Play All, by Clive James Bryan Appleyard Diane Arbus, by Arthur Lubow 41 Rose Prince on cookbooks 42 Martin Gayford on art books 44 John Mole ‘The Kiss’: a poem Alan Wall Jerusalem, by Alan Moore 45 Julie Burchill Good Vibrations, by Mike Love; I Am Brian Wilson, by Brian Wilson 46 Lee Langley A Horse Walks into a Bar, by David Grossman Ian Thomson A Smell of Burning, by Colin Grant 47 Keiron Pim Where Poppies Blow, by John Lewis-Stempel
Donald Trump’s leftie side Melanie Phillips 26 Exodus from Gambia
Why so many people are leaving Colin Freeman 28 Class act
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