The Spectator

14 June 2008

Features:

• When did you last see your children? Rachel Johnson They are the new victims of middle-class neglect
• A visit to Darfur with the UN David Bosco What would it take to stiffen the Security Council’s resolve?
• No child left behind Ed Balls Excellence in education should be for all
• Plumed hats and heaving bosoms Gerald Warner A celebration of the swashbuckling novel
• How not to save the planet James Delingpole Bjørn Lomborg says global warming is a low priority
• Don’t cry for the dolphins Rod Liddle Our reaction is sentimental, confused, dangerous
• Investment lessons David Craig 32
• Women entrepreneurs Bruce Macfarlane 34
• Global accounting rules Christopher Fildes 34
• Wine investment Christopher Silvester 36
• Investment banking Simon Nixon 38
• Any Other Business Martin Vander Weyer 42
• Henrietta Bredin joins in the preparations for Vaughan Williams’s ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’
• Exhibitions: Summer Exhibition Andrew Lambirth
• Architecture Alan Powers
• Opera: Don Carlo Michael Tanner
• Olden but golden Charles Spencer
• Theatre: Rosmersholm; Love — The Musical; Fat Pig Lloyd Evans
• Cinema: Irina Palm Deborah Ross
• Jason Goodwin: Trying to Please, by John Julius Norwich 4
• Sam Leith: The Pain and the Privilege, by Ffion Hague
• Byron Rogers: Semi-invisible Man, by Julian Evans
• Caroline Moorehead: The Translator, by Daoud Hari
• Margaret MacMillan: The Most Noble Adventure, by Greg Behrman
• Simon Baker: Human Love, by Andrei Makine
• Rupert Christiansen: Letters from a Life, by Benjamin Britten
• Andrew Taylor: The Vows of Silence, by Susan Hill
• Andro Linklater: Forgotten Voices of the Secret War, by Roderick Bayley
• Paul Farley: ‘Odometer’: a poem
• Allan Massie: Life and letters