Magnificent moths, p28
What is is about T.E. Lawrence?, p50
The writer, the painter and the Ripper, p18
THE WEEK
3 Leading article 6 Portrait of the Week 7 Diary Reflections in Berlin
Simon Baron Cohen 9 The Spectator’s Notes Scotland,
the Hoggs, hate crime and kedgeree Charles Moore 14 From the archive
The Dardanelles report 17 Rod Liddle
Europe’s elite feels the fear 18 Barometer Golf, referendums,
working from home 19 Ancient and modern Tax 23 Matthew Parris On doing good 24 Hugo Rifkind Prisoners’ mobiles 25 Letters The Pope, Scotland,
school fees and Shakespeare 26 Any other business The real endangered species at the top Martin Vander Weyer
BOOKS & ARTS
10 May’s double trouble
How can she win in both Brussels and Scotland? James Forsyth 11 Mairi MacInnes
‘Poem’ 12 Uncover her face Veil bans are good for Muslims
Qanta Ahmed 14 Why Milton still matters
Paradise Lost at 350 Boyd Tonkin 18 Redeeming the Ripper
Patricia Cornwell’s strange quest Mary Wakefield 21 Israel notebook From Jerusalem to the Syrian border
A cruel criminal enterprise in Cyprus Simon Barnes BOOKS 28 Caroline Moore Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland, by Paul Waring and Martin Townsend 30 Ferdinand Mount The Cabinet Office, by Anthony Selden; The Official History of the Cabinet Secretaries, by Ian Beesley 33 Melanie McDonagh The Catholics, by Roy Hattersley Simon Berry ‘From the Bat Cave (2016)’: a poem 37 Stephen Bayley The Secret Lives of Colour, by Kassia St Clair; Chromaphilia, by Stella Paul 38 A.N. Wilson The Kingdom, by Emmanuel Carrère 39 James Marriott A Natural, by Ross Raisin
Lara Prendergast 22 Little birds, big trouble
Deborah Ross is away.
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