Spectator, The

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Articles in Aug 8, 1998, issue of Spectator, The

• Descartes' parrot
  by Watson, Sophie
• Orders from Moscow
  by Mirsky, Jonathan
• A world within a world
  by de Lisle, Leanda
• People a la mode
  by Oakley, Robin
• Animal crackers
  by Steyn, Mark
• Power building in Paris
  by Powell, Nicholas
• Design and democracy
  by Stamp, Gavin
• Why was that waiter so cross with you, Tony? I offered to pay him in sterling
  by Fildes, Christopher
• Small is dazzling
  by Morley, Sheridan
• Portrait of the week
• A cow'rin' tim'rous beastie
  by Ousby, Ian
• In praise of sandline
  by Shawcross, William
• Frankly, he hasn't got it
  by Barnes, Simon
• In my lady's chamber
  by Vansittart, Peter
• Thoughts of a cockroach
  by Catling, Patrick Skene
• A question of due respect
  by Rogers, Byron
• Supping with the enemy
  by Delingpole, James
• For less than this, I once had an ink-pot thrown at my head
  by Worsthorne, Peregrine
• Assaulting the bureaucrats
  by Biffen, John
• No oil painting
  by Srodes, James
• Recent first novels
  by Clarke, Victoria
• Grand tour operators
  by Taylor, Robert
• Dope and glory
  by Barnes, Simon
• Highs and lows at the Proms
  by Holloway, Robin
• middle ground, The
  by Glazebrook, Philip
• Mind your language
  by Wordsworth, Dot
• Patches of darkness
  by Crane, David
• Some day soon the Bank of England will reopen as a gastrodome and no one will turn up
  by Fildes, Christopher
• Mind your language
  by Wordsworth, Dot
• Macdonald's takeaway
• Books on tape
  by Levi, Peter
• In August's heat, prosperity's building-blocks ae turning squishy at the edges
  by Fildes, Christopher
• One-night stands
  by Tanner, Michael
• Pompous paternalism
  by Amory, Edward Heathcoat
• What Edward II, Diana and Russia's last tsar had in common
  by Johnson, Paul
• Ancient & modern
  by Jones, Peter
• Politics and Salzburg
  by Sutcliffe, Tom
• Buffalo and the old bill
• Critics run for cover when a popular artist starts to become an old master
  by Johnson, Paul
• Portrait of the week
• real deal, The
  by Taki
• Dad's army wanted
  by Almond, Peter
• Dear Mary...
  by Killen, Mary
• Stain of perjury?
  by Steyn, Mark
• On how history, like buddleia, is easily lost to us
  by Parris, Matthew
• Hard to believe
  by Kavanagh, P J
• Mule-diving for the high jump
  by Broughton, Philip Delves
• noises, the smells and the people, The
  by Lively, Penelope
• Reshuffle day with Gordon
  by Wyatt, Petronella
• Why I'm modern, but not modernist
• A taste for living dangerously
  by Chisholm, Anne
• Dear Mary...
  by Killen, Mary
• An assassin ascendant
  by Stock, Jon
• Those in peril on the sea
  by Judd, Alan
• Dear Mary...
  by Killen, Mary
• Battery of information
  by Phillips, Peter
• Diary
  by Christiansen, Rupert
• Semen and semantics
  by Steyn, Mark
• Restaraunt: Dining at the Edinburgh Festival
  by Fingleton, David
• 'He is no Scot who does not like this book'
  by Sumption, Jonathan
• Wiggling in Sun Valley
  by Stelzer, Irwin
• Eccentric rich uncle
  by Waugh, Auberon
• Tough school
  by Oakley, Robin
• Love story
  by Vestey, Michael
• Our mutual friends
  by Fildes, Christopher
• case for the prosecution, The
  by Scammell, William
• Saint and sinners
  by Taki
• Nothing left remarkable beneath the visiting moon? I disagree
  by Johnson, Paul
• A romantic outsider
  by McEwen, John
• Omagh was expected, and should have been anticipated
  by Anderson, Bruce
• Ring down the curtain
  by Fildes, Christopher
• Ancient & modern
  by Jones, Peter
• Sex on the brain
  by Oakley, Robin
• great pension show, The
  by Fildes, Christopher
• Portrait of the week
• A fellow of infinite prickliness
  by Carr, Raymond
• A tale of two Yorkshiremen
  by Vestey, Michael
• Dear Mary...
  by Killen, Mary
• Quality control
  by Buchan, Ursula
• Restaurant: L'Escargot
  by Fingleton, David