Oldman’s finest hour, p44
Is that really necessary? p24
The green-eyed monster, p38
THE WEEK
3 Leading article 7 Portrait of the Week 9 Diary Enabling The Donald and the true meaning of Trumpocracy David Frum 10 Politics Theresa May’s weaknesses
James Forsyth 11 The Spectator’s Notes
Remembering Gavin Stamp; Christmas card trumps Charles Moore 15 Rod Liddle The Twitchfork mob 18 Ancient and modern
A madman at the helm 23 Matthew Parris Victims and justice 24 Barometer It’s getting better 27 Mary Wakefield Therapy’s perils 29 Letters The pensions crisis; Wilfred
Owen;Toby Young’s resignation 30 Any other business
Trump,Wolff and Wall Street Martin Vander Weyer
12 Twitter inquisition
An online past will always catch up with you Lara Prendergast 13 On being a public enemy The more you defend yourself, the more crazed the mob becomes Toby Young 18 A bird-brained scheme Battling to keep people and nests apart Melissa Kite 20 Girl power Educating girls is the answer to the world’s ills Boris Johnson 21 Samantha Roden
‘Shove Your Tissues’: a poem 24 Smooth operators Is expensive surgery necessary?
James Grogono 28 Political football To Putin, the World Cup means respect Owen Matthews
BOOKS & ARTS
BOOKS 32 Nicholas Shakespeare
Paradise in Chains, by Diana Preston 34 Jonathan Coe
The Unmapped Country, by Ann Quin 36 A.S.H. Smyth
The Skull of Alum Bheg, by Kim A.Wagner 37 Boyd Tonkin
Writer’s Luck, by David Lodge Ruth Padel ‘Postern’: a poem 38 Emily Hill on jealousy and revenge 39 Tim Stanley
Franklin D. Roosevelt, by Robert Dallek 40 Kate Womersley
The Butchering Art, by Lindsey Fitzharris 41 Keith Miller on first novels Candy Neubert ‘beetle’: a poem 42 Patrick Flanery
A Long Way from Home, by Peter Carey Justin Marozzi
In Search of the Phoenicians, by Josephine Quinn 43 Dominic Green
William Blake and the Age of Aquarius, ed. by Stephen F. Eisenman
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