In this week's Spectator
10:51amThe latest issue of the Spectator is released today. If you are a subscriber you can view it here. If you have not subscribed, but would like to view this week’s content, you can subscribe online now.
Five articles from the latest issue are available for free online to all website users:
A week after David Cameron ruled out a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, hardly a squeak of protest has been heard from Eurosceptics in his party. It’s not because they have accepted defeat, says Fraser Nelson, but because they are deadly serious about victory.
After a good meal, Tory MPs like to play a game: guess the first resignation from David Cameron’s Cabinet. One name comes up more frequently than any other: Dominic Grieve. Grieve is not a typical shadow minister. James Forsyth says that Cameron may regret leaving the law to a lawyer.
Without meaning to sound nauseatingly smug or dangerously hubristic, James Delingpole might finally have become almost-famous. It occurred to him, bizarrely, whilst listening to Vanessa Feltz. His fame is owed almost exclusively to the internet and to this column.
The ‘poet of the piano’, Murray Perahia, talks to Igor Toronyi-Lalic about being championed by Horowitz, his rise to fame and how his injury taught him what to play. Essentially, it is yes to Bach and definitely no to Debussy.
Henrietta Bredin thinks that there can be no braver a gesture than building a new opera house in the current doom-laden financial climate. Deep in the heart of Texas, in Dallas, in the centre of its freshly revamped arts district, Spencer de Grey has done exactly that.
Additionally, last week’s magazine content is now available to all. Here is a selection of articles.
Rod Liddle wonders if the Roma really need to improve their resilience skills.
Sarah Churchwell says the American craze for Amish romance novels — ‘bonnet-rippers’ — is just one part of a strange new fashion for conservatism and abstinence.
Peter Jones laments another step on the route to the day when university teachers will provide gratification not education.
Toby Young expected a Hefner party, but this was like a ‘mixer’ at a Florida retirement home.
Philip Hensher reviews Blake Bailey’s life of John Cheever.
Alan Judd asks if the VW Polo is dependable or exotica.
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quadratus
November 12th, 2009 11:32am Report this comment"....bonnet-rippers.." Do you mean 'BODICE-RIRPPERS'much more fun!
Tiberius
November 12th, 2009 2:34pm Report this commentIsn't the point about "bonnet-ripper" for the Amish the same as "niqab-ripper" would be for followers of the prophet?
logdon
November 12th, 2009 4:20pm Report this commentTwo things caught my attention today.
One was this, which is quite uniquely Italian in the Oriana Fallaci mode.
Fallacci wrote two pretty seminal books, The Force of Reason and The Rage and the Pride about how Islam is completely corrupting and destroying Italy and Italian culture and it’s history.
By seminal I mean she was hounded by islamists who without any doubt would have killed her. And worse, her own government with legal threat and such harassment she left for New York where she died last year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpdCfbSsNzQ&feature=player_embedded#
This is great stuff, watch the classic reaction of the bearded fanatical muslim as his rage engulfs him. A woman who dare’s insult the prophet? As the MCB’s Iqbal Sacranie said about Rushdie, ‘death would be too easy’.
And imagine his anger now? Unnassuaged festering. A veritable Fort Hood killer in the making? That’s all it takes. The hair trigger and the itchy finger of a supremacist faith in collision by mere words.
Leading to thought two.
Today’s Eye has the running Fantoni cartoon, Scenes You Seldom See.
Two men standing at bar, one saying to the other, “There’s a really interesting article in the weeks Spectator”. Scenes you seldom see, indeed?
Get off the fence, for God’s sake. You dithered on Neather. You offered pathetically wimpy excuse for Nidal Malik Hasan’s demonstrably inexcusable homicidal jihad rampage.
What more does it take before honesty and a bit of journalistic leadership takes the place of the politically correct blandness?
That woman in the clip had the balls to speak the unspeakable. Mohammed, in marrying a nine year old Aisha was a paedophile. She knew it. We know it, yet seemingly it remains, in media and falsly polite (or more likely ,scared shitless) circles, firmly in it’s box as the unknown, unknown.
Something has to give. This wierd phoney war is driving Britain crazy.
One day it will erupt.
Then maybe, you’ll have something to write about.
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