An apology, p25

Come back, Hunter –

we need you, p30

THE WEEK

5 Leading article 8 Portrait of the Week 9 Diary Luciana Berger, feminist plays and Jeremy Corbyn’s exes Jess Phillips 10 Politics

Defeating Corbyn is not a done deal James Forsyth 11 The Spectator’s Notes

Brexit sanity, Memory Lane and farewell John Humphrys Charles Moore 15 Rod Liddle

My diversity targets for the BBC 17 Barometer Places in hell, lost planes and a licence to drive 20 Ancient and modern

Tyrannical tips 23 Lionel Shriver

Without forgiveness, we’re doomed 24 Matthew Parris An epic drive through snowy Spanish mountains 25 Letters Seizing horses, invisible illnesses, and ragwort, we’re sorry 27 Any other business

Why Keynesian theory can’t dig us out of Brexit uncertainty Martin Vander Weyer

We are not abused, p20

12 Corbyn’s crack-up

Is the Labour leader’s personality cult on the verge of disintegrating? Nick Cohen 13 Will Stone ‘The Mad Woman at Gloucester

Road’: a poem 14 The hypocrisy of Jeff Bezos The Amazon founder is no friend of the free press John R. MacArthur 16 Europe’s culture clash The battle for the continent’s soul

Christopher Caldwell 18 Under cover of darkness World Hijab Day is an insult to girls

Soutiam Goodarzi 20 Blues and the royals The Windsors’ persecution complex

Jan Moir

BOOKS & ARTS

BOOKS 28 Sam Leith

Ruskinland, by Andrew Hill 30 Anne Margaret Daniel

Freak Kingdom, by Timothy Denevi 32 Sue Leigh

‘Old ground’: a poem 33 Ian Thomson

Believing in Film, by Mark Le Fanu 34 Sara Wheeler

North Pole, by Michael Bravo 35 Julian Flanagan

‘Lost on the Way Out’: a poem Leyla Sanai

Victory, by James Lasdun 36 Simon Ings

Professor Maxwell’s Duplicitous Demon, by Brian Clegg 37 Stuart Kelly

Hark, by Sam Lipsyte Claire Kohda Hazelton

Where Reasons End, by Yiyun Li 38 Nick Spencer

Permanent Revolution, by James Simpson 39 Boyd Tonkin

The Capital, by Robert Menasse Ben Wilkinson

‘Cage’: a poem

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