Thursday 16 October 2008

 

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The Week

If a museum were built to honour the ancestral political class, it would not look much different from the House of Commons. Its corridors are lined with portraits of the political greats and its staircases are adorned with old Vanity Fair caricatures. ‘Honourable members’ are still treated as if they were just that, with the right to jump to the top of the queue at canteens, bars and the post office. In other words: they live in a bubble of delusion, comfortably but perilously insulated from the growing hostility of the outside world.

A necessary evil

The Spectator on the Government's £50 billion bailout

Diary

Denix MacShane looks back on his packed summer break

Politics

Irwin Stelzer reviews the week in politics

The Spectator's Notes

Charles Moore's reflections on the week

Arts

Credit where it’s due

Credit where it’s due

Charles Spencer battles the credit crunch

Fear and menace

Gomorrah
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Books

Terrors of the imagination

Terrors of the imagination

The Beacon, by Susan Hill

Surprising literary ventures

Surprising literary ventures

So You Want to Try Drugs?, by Fiona Foster and Alexander McCall Smith

Style & Travel

Call of the wild

Call of the wild

One Highlands estate is to become a wilderness reserve, writes Lisa Marie Johnson

To the manner born

To the manner born

James Sherwood discovers a new meaning to the phrase ‘fashion house’

The Spectator Parliamentarian Awards
The Spectator Billabong
In this week's issue

Web Exclusive: Lloyd Evans on Thomas Friedman

Thomas Friedman, the influential American commentator, addressed Intelligence Squared on his new book, ‘Hot, Flat and Crowded. Why the world needs a green revolution and how we can renew our global future.’

Lloyd Evans

Amid the financial turmoil, Peter versus George is the key battle

Stand by for a mighty clash between two politicians, says Fraser Nelson. The now infamous dinner between Mandelson and Osborne was a cordial parting for power-brokers of different generations who will fight each other savagely for electoral advantage

Fraser Nelson

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