Cleanse and polish, p57
Mini me, p38
Programmed to please, p18
THE WEEK
3 Leading article 6 Portrait of the Week 9 Diary Dolly Parton, naked protests, and swearing on TV Richard Madeley 10 Politics Europe’s Nato problem
Vernon Bogdanor 11 The Spectator’s Notes
The car industry’s woes are nothing to do with Brexit Charles Moore 17 Rod Liddle
New party, same old views 20 Ancient and modern
Circling around Brexit 21 James Delingpole
The story behind my naked video 25 Letters The breakaway seven,
Scottish ales and ghost stations 27 Any other business The UK car industry is reversing back to the 1970s Martin Vander Weyer
Deborah Ross is away.
12 The change we need?
The new Independent Group could cause havoc for every party James Forsyth 13 A splitting headache
Team Corbyn is concerned — rightly so Katy Balls 14 Modi’s operandi Imran Khan’s attempts to make peace are being deliberately thwarted Peter Oborne 18 More than human AI is set to change everything
Chris Duffey and Aimé 20 Clucking hell Hen parties are terrible
Laura Freeman 24 Take back control We must withdraw Article 50
Paul Collier 26 Poet’s notebook Brexit pollsters, Desert Island Discs and the art of embroidery Wendy Cope
BOOKS & ARTS
BOOKS 30 Kate Womersley
On the wisdom of wolves 32 Ian Sansom
The Map of Knowledge, by Violet Moller 33 Damian Thompson
In the Closet of the Vatican, by Frédéric Martel 34 Anne Sebba
The Photographer at Sixteen, by George Szirtes 35 John Burnside
Black Leopard Red Wolf, by Marlon James Rebecca Farmer
‘Placebo’: a poem
ARTS SPECIAL 36 Roger Scruton On buildings and beauty 38 Miniatures Hilliard & Oliver
Laura Gascoigne 40 Photography Diane Arbus; Don McCullin
Martin Gayford
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