Thursday 16 October 2008

 

The latest culture as recommended by our staff

Michael Henderson

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Life and Lives

Queens' College, Cambridge or Queens' College, Cambridge

Slow Life<br />

Slow Life

Conquering hero

Low Life<br />

Low Life

Upward mobility

Gardens

Magic Mushrooms

High Life

Paradise lost

Arts

Handel’s oddity

Handel’s oddity

Partenope
English National Opera

A man apart

A man apart

The great days of cinema are not over: they live on in Terence Davies, writes Peter Hoskin

Books

Faith in the Founding Fathers

Faith in the Founding Fathers

The American Future, by Simon Schama

First knight and his lady

First knight and his lady

A Strange, Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and Their Remarkable Families, by Michael Holroyd

Style & Travel

The good things in life

Mimi Spencer on Punjab

Classics of the subcontinent

Classics of the subcontinent

Exuberant displays of wealth give a hint of India’s future, says Charlotte Metcalf

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

Brown must stop sounding like a sore winner

The Prime Minister has triumphed for now with his grand rescue plan, says Irwin Stelzer. But that is no reason to blame the crisis on America. It may be a reason for an early election

Irwin Stelzer

As Brown poses as FDR, look ahead to a very new capitalism

Charles Leadbeater, the acclaimed innovator and new media analyst, predicts a transformed landscape: a new ‘networked’ capitalism in which the state plays a part but cannot pick winners — a system that is chastened, subdued and fraught with social danger

Charles Leadbeater

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