Phone it in, p55
Fairer sex, p36
Deer departed, p38
THE WEEK
3 Leading article 6 Portrait of the Week 9 Diary My clash with
Maureen Lipman Joan Collins 11 The Spectator’s Notes
The strange case of Barry Gardiner Charles Moore 14 Barometer TV licences,
tsunamis and Sage’s sums 15 Rod Liddle
Looking back in anger 21 Douglas Murray
Meat of the matter 22 Ancient and modern
Gathering storm 25 Matthew Parris
The good side of guilt 26 Lionel Shriver Someone should tell Biden it’s not 1965 27 Letters Marmalade, manifesting and jabs for jobs 31 Any other business Unilever,
GSK and the perils of ‘purpose’ Martin Vander Weyer
12 The collapse
The Red Wall is crumbling Katy Balls 13 ‘If it goes to a vote, that’s it’ Even ministers loyal to Johnson are worried James Forsyth 16 Corporation facts Nadine Dorries and the BBC question
Paul Wood 17 Playwright’s notebook
The hypocrisy of actors David Mamet 18 The executioner’s song
My father Norman got cancelled Michael Mailer 20 In the pipeline
Germany’s alliance with Russia Wolfgang Münchau 22 Road to Reform An interview with Richard Tice
James Heale 24 All over
Why was Politics For All shut down? Nick Moar 28 Old money In defence of hard cash
Laurie Graham
BOOKS & ARTS
BOOKS 32 Elaine Showalter
A Splendid Intelligence, by Cathy Curtis 34 Wynn Wheldon
The Georgians, by Penelope J. Corfield 35 Peter Parker
A Previous Life, by Edmund White 36 Genevieve Gaunt
Open, by Rachel Krantz Leyla Sanai It’s Getting Dark, by Peter Stamm 37 Andrew Taylor
The Second Cut, by Louise Welsh 38 Olivia Potts
Taste Makers, by Mayukh Sen Ian Harrow ‘Last Word But One’: a poem Piers Torday The Original Bambi, by Felix Salten 39 Cindy Yu
Kingdom of Characters, by Jing Tsu 40 Susie Mesure
Zorrie, by Laird Hunt 41 Caroline Moorehead
The Ticket Collector from Belarus, by Mike Anderson and Neil Hanson
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