The Week
Beneath the dynamic surface, Brown is dismantling Blair’s public service reforms
The Spectator's Notes
Charles Moore's reflections on the week
Diary of a Notting Hill Nobody
Tamzin Lightwater's unique take on the week
The Spectator Parliamentarian of the Year Awards
Your nominations for the Readers' Representative award
Arts
Sound sensations
The Archive Hour (BBC Radio Four); Jazz Library (BBC Radio Three)
Books
A very slippery book
A review of another biography of that tiresome poser, Lady Hester Stanhope, sent me back to Kinglake’s Eothen and the account of the visit he paid the Queen of the Desert, who dwelt in tents (as he found she didn’t) and reigned over wandering Arabs (which wasn’t the case either).
Style & Travel
The scars of war
Andrew Roberts is moved by the battlefields of southern Italy and the sacrifices made there
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