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Features

I never want to be as insecure as Olivier

Tim Walker talks to Greta Scacchi about her new role in The Deep Blue Sea, the gaucheness of Bill Murray — and being offered the lead in Basic Instinct

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Heathrow needs a third runway - Debate report

Lloyd Evans on the latest Spectator / Intelligence Squared debate

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

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

An evening with the Muslim Facebook crew

Sarfraz Manzoor celebrates an iftar meal with homeless people and his fellow Muslims, a web-generated ‘flashmob’ observing an Islamic tradition of generosity to the needy

Arts

Choice pickings

Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Barbican

Swan Lake
Royal Opera House

Scottish Ballet
Queen Elizabeth Hall

Moving vista

Joan Eardley
The Fleming Collection, 13 Berkeley Street, London W1, until 20 December

Books

Terrors of the imagination

The Beacon, by Susan Hill

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

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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