The Spectator

10 May 2008

Features:

• David Cameron prepares for power Fraser Nelson The Tory leader looks ahead after his local election triumphs
• Setbacks for Clinton — and Obama James Forsyth Hillary is disappointed, while Barack’s image takes a knock
• My new life as Father of the Mayor Stanley Johnson It’s all change in London’s clubland
• Our transport system is a joke Andrew Neil To call it ‘Third World’ is a slur on the Third World
• Gays and the Christian message Theo Hobson An interview with Bishop Gene Robinson
• The Burmese cyclone is bad all over Rod Liddle It is too optimistic to hope for benign political side-effects
• Pete Hoskin on the life and career of James Stewart
• Exhibitions 1: Maria Lassnig; Alison Watt: Phantom Andrew Lambirth
• Exhibitions 2: Rome and the Barbarians Roderick Conway Morris
• Philip Mansel: Paradise Lost, by Giles Milton; The Bridge, by Geert Mak
• Matthew Dennison: The Crowded Street, by Winifred Holtby
• Jonathan Mirsky: Reappraisals, by Tony Judt
• Stanley Johnson: The Glenthorne Cat and Other Amaz ing Leopard Stories, by Christopher Ondaatje; Blood Ivory, by Robin Brown
• P. J. Kavanagh: The Lost Village, by Richard Askwith; Real England, by Paul Kingsnorth
• Sarah Burton: Stage Directions, by Mich ael Frayn
• Byron Rogers: Halfway to Venus, by Sarah Anderson
• Martin Dav ies: Playing Cards in Cairo, by Hugh Miles
• Sara Wheeler: The Bolter, by Frances Osborne
• Andrew Taylor: Revelation, by C.J. Sansom
• Jane Ridley: Axel Munthe, by Bengt Jangfeldt
• Connie Bensley: ‘Reculer’: a poem
• Emperor Soros’s new clothes Matthew Lynn
• City Life: Beijing Anne Hyland
• Theatre 1: Tinderbox; The Year of Magical Thinking Lloyd Evans 52
• Theatre 2: The Taming of the Shrew; The Merchant of Venice Patrick Carnegy
• Cinema: Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? Deborah Ross
• Opera: Macbeth; Punch and Judy; The Minotaur; Don Giovanni Michael Tanner
• Islands in the sun Christa D’Souza
• French lessons Oscar Humphries