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The benefits of large families, p16 The rest of the gang, p18 Does Birdsong sing? p59 THE WEEK 5 Leading article 9 Portrait of the Week 11 Diary stuart reid 12 Politics James forsyth 13 The Spectator’s Notes 16 Barometer 27 Matthew Parris 28 Ancient & modern 31 Letters 32 Any other business Martin VanderWeyer tHE nEW EstABLisHMEnt 14 Class distinction Even our aristocrats now consider themselves meritocrats Toby Young 15 rise of the special advisers Hothouse of the New Establishment Quentin Letts 16 Howtospend it Lifestyles of the discreetly powerful Rachel Johnson 18 Cameron’s tangled webs Who connects with whom 20 the ghost at the feast David Davis, odd man out Rod Liddle 22 Blackballed by Cameron How I became an outcast Douglas Murray 24 After the genocide Rwanda’s other lesson for the interventionists John Laughland 28 the real irish problem Blame the euro, not cuts Allister Heath BOOKS & ARTS BOOKs sPECiAL 36 sam Leith Love, Sex, Death and Words, by John Sutherland and Stephen Fender; Title Deeds, by Gary Dexter 38 Paul Johnson Palmerston, by David Brown 41 susan Hill The English Ghost, by Peter Ackroyd 42 Juliet Gardiner Surviving Hitler’s War, by Hester Vaizey 43 Andro Linklater The Blitz, by Juliet Gardiner 44 Margaret Drabble The Lost City of Stoke-on-Trent, by Matthew Rice 47 Gilbert Adair The Sixties, by Christopher Isherwood 49 Lewis Jones Nemesis, by Philip Roth Beata Duncan ‘The Swimsuit’: a poem 49 Christian House Bookends 51 A selection from the writings of G.K. Chesterton Cover by Morten Morland. Drawings by Bernie, Michael Heath, Castro, Robert Thompson, Nick Downes, Royston, Paul Wood, Rob Murray, Nick Newman, Kipper Williams and Geoff Thompson. www.spectator.co.uk To subscribe to The Spectator for £104 a year, turn to page 68 Editorial and advertising The Spectator, 22 Old Queen Street, London SW1H 9HP, Tel: 020 7961 0200, Fax: 020 7961 0250, Email: editor@spectator.co.uk (editorial); letters@spectator.co.uk (for publication); advertising@spectator.co.uk (advertising); Advertising enquiries: 020 7961 0219 Advertising fax: 020 7961 0020 subscription and delivery queries Spectator Subscriptions Dept., 800 Guillat Avenue, Kent Science Park, Sittingbourne ME9 8GU;Tel: 01795 592886 Fax: 0870 220 0290; Email: spectator@servicehelpline.co.uk newsagent queries Spectator Circulation Dept, 22 Old Queen Street, London SW1H 9HP, Tel: 020 7961 0200, Fax: 020 7961 0057, Email: dstam@pressholdings.com Distributor COMAG Specialist, Tavistock Works, Tavistock Road,West Drayton, Middlesex UB7 7QX Vol 314; no 9502 © 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 6 the spectator | 9 October 2010 | www.spectator.co.uk

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The benefits of large families, p16

The rest of the gang, p18

Does Birdsong sing? p59

THE WEEK

5 Leading article 9 Portrait of the Week 11 Diary stuart reid 12 Politics James forsyth 13 The Spectator’s Notes 16 Barometer 27 Matthew Parris 28 Ancient & modern 31 Letters 32 Any other business Martin VanderWeyer tHE nEW EstABLisHMEnt 14 Class distinction Even our aristocrats now consider themselves meritocrats Toby Young 15 rise of the special advisers Hothouse of the New Establishment Quentin Letts 16 Howtospend it Lifestyles of the discreetly powerful Rachel Johnson 18 Cameron’s tangled webs Who connects with whom 20 the ghost at the feast David Davis, odd man out Rod Liddle 22 Blackballed by Cameron How I became an outcast Douglas Murray

24 After the genocide Rwanda’s other lesson for the interventionists John Laughland 28 the real irish problem Blame the euro, not cuts Allister Heath

BOOKS & ARTS

BOOKs sPECiAL 36 sam Leith Love, Sex, Death and

Words, by John Sutherland and Stephen Fender; Title Deeds, by Gary Dexter 38 Paul Johnson Palmerston,

by David Brown 41 susan Hill The English Ghost,

by Peter Ackroyd 42 Juliet Gardiner Surviving Hitler’s

War, by Hester Vaizey 43 Andro Linklater The Blitz, by Juliet Gardiner 44 Margaret Drabble The Lost City of Stoke-on-Trent, by Matthew Rice 47 Gilbert Adair The Sixties,

by Christopher Isherwood 49 Lewis Jones Nemesis, by Philip Roth Beata Duncan ‘The Swimsuit’: a poem 49 Christian House Bookends 51 A selection from the writings of G.K. Chesterton

Cover by Morten Morland. Drawings by Bernie, Michael Heath, Castro, Robert Thompson, Nick Downes, Royston, Paul Wood, Rob Murray, Nick Newman, Kipper Williams and Geoff Thompson. www.spectator.co.uk To subscribe to The Spectator for £104 a year, turn to page 68 Editorial and advertising The Spectator, 22 Old Queen Street, London SW1H 9HP, Tel: 020 7961 0200, Fax: 020 7961 0250, Email: editor@spectator.co.uk (editorial); letters@spectator.co.uk (for publication); advertising@spectator.co.uk (advertising); Advertising enquiries: 020 7961 0219 Advertising fax: 020 7961 0020 subscription and delivery queries Spectator Subscriptions Dept., 800 Guillat Avenue, Kent Science Park, Sittingbourne ME9 8GU;Tel: 01795 592886 Fax: 0870 220 0290; Email: spectator@servicehelpline.co.uk newsagent queries Spectator Circulation Dept, 22 Old Queen Street, London SW1H 9HP, Tel: 020 7961 0200, Fax: 020 7961 0057, Email: dstam@pressholdings.com Distributor COMAG Specialist, Tavistock Works, Tavistock Road,West Drayton, Middlesex UB7 7QX Vol 314; no 9502 © 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

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