Contents Contents Contents ContentsTheweekLeadingarticle
5
Two weeks to save the Tory party James Forsyth The Nick Clegg bubble could end Conservatism as we know it
14
Portrait of the Week
Diary Olivia Glazebrook
The Spectator’s Notes
Diary of a Notting Hill Nobody
Mind your language
Letters
Another voice Matthew Parris
Any other business Martin Vander Weyer
Ancient & modern
9
10
12
17
22
27
29
30
62
Books Michael Burleigh: The Atlantic and its Enemies, by Norman Stone
32
Simon Sebag Montefiore: 25 Chapters of My Life, by the Grand Duchess Olga, edited by Paul Kulikovsky et al
33
Joanna Kavenna: The Watkins Boys, by Simon Courtauld
34
Quentin Letts: The Rage Against God, by Peter Hitchens
35
Christian House: The Conman, by Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo
36
Anne Applebaum: Molotov’s Magic Lantern, by Rachel Polonsky
37
Andrew Taylor: At the Chime of a City Clock, by D.J. Taylor
38
Jonathan Mirsky: The Courtesan and the Samurai, by Lesley Downer
Dan Wyke: ‘The Last Man’: a poem
38
38
Arts William Cook takes us on a tour of the Ruhr, 2010’s unlikely European Capital of Culture
39
Exhibitions: Paul Sandby: Picturing Britain, a Bicentenary Exhibition Andrew Lambirth
41
A new political low Rod Liddle Cleggmania marks the start of X Factor politics
16
The great American melting pot Patrick Allitt The US remains the best assimilator of immigrants
18
Kissinger’s man from Moscow Alistair Horne Did Anatoly Dobrynin stop the Cold War getting hot?
20
New Labour’s new commandments Brendan O’Neill Let’s hope the next government leaves us alone
22
Eating disorder Andrew M. Brown In the olden days, fixed mealtimes stopped us getting fat
24
Is Goldman Sachs guilty? Philip Delves Broughton Even if it is, governments are too weak to punish the firm
24
‘That’s all the holiday snaps — now for the pics of how we got home!’
Cover by Morten Morland. Drawings by Michael Heath, Castro, Christian Adams, Russell, Robert Thompson, Mazurke, Colin Wheeler, Adam Singleton, Grizelda, Kipper Williams, Nick Newman and Bernie. Subscribe today from £123 a year in the UK
Editorial, advertising and events Tel: 020 7961 0200 Fax: 020 7961 0250 Email: editor@spectator.co.uk (editorial) letters@spectator.co.uk (for publication) Advertising enquiries: 020 7961 0219 Advertising fax: 020 7961 0020 advertising@spectator.co.uk (advertising) Events enquiries: 020 7961 0044 pvela@spectator.co.uk (events) Subscription and delivery queries Spectator Subscriptions Dept., 800 Guillat Avenue, Kent Science Park, Sittingbourne ME9 8GU Tel: 01795 592886 Fax: 01795 414555 Email: spectator@servicehelpline.co.uk
Newsagent queries Spectator Circulation Dept, Tel: 020 7961 0200 Fax: 020 7961 0057 Email: dstam@spectator.co.uk Distributor COMAG Specialist Tavistock Works Tavistock Road West Drayton Middlesex UB7 7QX
Vol 312; no 9478 © The Spectator (1828) Ltd. ISSN 0038-6952
The Spectator is published weekly by The Spectator (1828) Ltd at: 22 Old Queen Street, London SW1H 9HP Editor: Fraser Nelson
Exhibitions: A Critic’s Choice Selected by Andrew Lambirth Laura Gascoigne
41
Theatre: Porn — The Musical; Posh
Lloyd Evans
42
Cinema: Centurion
Peter Hoskin
43
Music
Robin Holloway
44
Opera: The Adventures of Mr Broucek; Prima Donna
Michael Tanner
45
Radio
Kate Chisholm
Television
Simon Hoggart
46
46
Life Gardens
Ursula Buchan
High life
Taki
Low life Jeremy Clarke
Real life Melissa Kite
Bridge Janet de Botton
47
47
48
49
49
travel The high and the mighty
Edward Stourton
Singing Japanese
Peter Phillips
Trouble in paradise?
Rebecca Newman
50
51
52
Mekong: the mother of all rivers
William Dalrymple
55
And finaly . . . Chess Raymond Keene
56
Competition; Crossword
56, 57
Status anxiety Toby Young
The Wiki Man Rory Sutherland
Your problems solved Mary Killen
62
63
63
www.spectator.co.uk
THE SPECTATOR 24 April 2010 7
