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Sunday 12 October 2008

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Cartoons

Bentley beauty

Alan Judd goes Motoring

Time to bet against excessive pessimism

Ian Cowie agrees with the contrarian investor Anthony Bolton that this is a moment to buy shares, not sell them

Only Abba can save the world financial markets

Martin Vander Weyer says that the collapse in the markets reflects a loss of confidence that is out of proportion to all reason: a trip to Mamma Mia! is the answer to this hysteria

And Another Thing

The cartoonist who could make even God the Father laugh

Arts

In the doldrums

Hole in the Wall (BBC1, Saturday); American Future: A History (BBC2, Friday); John Adams (More 4, Saturday)

Fickle fortune

Tulips in Winter (BBC Radio 3); Soul and Skin (BBC Radio 4)

Books

Surprising literary ventures

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

Style & Travel

Call of the wild

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

To the manner born

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

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

Maybe Polanski was right to flee America

P.G. Morgan goes in search of the truth about the great director’s flight from the US courts — and uncovers some uncomfortable truths worthy of a scene in Chinatown

P.G. Morgan

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