Thursday 16 October 2008

 

The latest culture as recommended by our staff

Michael Henderson

Michael Henderson suggests


Style and Travel

Shena Guild converts her husband and son to the saddle in Connemara

Oh, Kolkata!

Oh, Kolkata!

The real adventure of India is to be found in the cities, writes A.A. Gill

Land of holy pigeons

Land of holy pigeons

Jeremy Clarke on his trip to Rajasthan

A Maharini’s secret garden

A Maharini’s secret garden

Juliet Nicholson on Jodphur

The good things in life

Mimi Spencer on Punjab

Arts

Silence in the air

Kate Chisholm on the latest radio offerings

Treading carefully

Stephen Fry in America (BBC1); Harry & Paul (BBC2, Monday); The Story of the Guitar (BBC1, Sunday); Meebox (BBC4)

Books

The spectre of Spielberg

The spectre of Spielberg

Searching for Schindler, by Thomas Keneally

Great expectations dashed

Great expectations dashed

Origins: A Memoir, by Amin Maalouf, translated by Catherine Temerson

Style & Travel

Classics of the subcontinent

Classics of the subcontinent

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

Call of the wild

Call of the wild

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

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

My real focus group scorned climate change

James Delingpole asks second world war re-enactors what they think of the green agenda: the answer is very different to the consensus around the pine tables of metropolitan London

James Delingpole

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