The Spectator

7 June 2008

Features:

• Jacqui Smith’s vote of confidence Matthew d’Ancona The Home Secretary is right about the 42-days proposal
• Naked greed meets Stalinist control Leo McKinstry The real meaning of ‘community empowerment’
• McCain is in for a shock if he wins Reihan Salam Republicans fail to see how much America has changed
• I have a right to look at fag packets Claire Fox The plans to remove cigarettes from display are too patronising 8
• My mum has little to fear from ‘Emos’ Henry Sands The teenagers whose wrath she has incurred are not so scary
• No-go areas for Christians? Rod Liddle It was outrageous to threaten the evangelicals with arrest
• Another voice Matthew Parris
• And another thing Paul Johnson
• The wisdom of Warren Buffett Matthew Lynn
• The FSA’s new chairman Richard Northedge
• The return of inflation Tony Curzon Price
• Philip Hensher: Prezza, by John Prescott
• Charles Cumming: The Devil May Care, by Sebastian Faulks
• Recent paperbacks
• Liz Anderson: The Story of Forgetting, by Stefan Merrill Block
• Jonathan Beckman: The Standing Pool, by Adam Thorpe
• Raymond Carr: Napoleon’s Cursed War, by Ronald Fraser
• William Leith: India, by Dietmar Rothermund
• Charlotte Moore: Bleeding Heart Square, by Andrew Taylor
• Patrick Skene Catling: The Legend of Colton H. Bryant, by Alexandra Fuller
• Victor Sebestyen: To the Castle and Back, by Václav Havel
• Peter Isacké: ‘Miss Marella Mink’: a poem
• Paula Byrne: Madresfield, by Jane Mulvagh
• Petroc Trelawny on piano fever in China
• Exhibitions: Unpopular Culture Andrew Lambirth
• Pop Marcus Berkmann
• Theatre: Never Forget; Life Coach; The Common Pursuit Lloyd Evans
• Opera: Aida Michael Tanner
• Cinema: Mongol Deborah Ross
• Radio Kate Chisholm
• Television Simon Hoggart