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analysis andall-roundentertainment value,The Spectator isunrivalled among magazines.The appearance forthe first time of The Spectator Annual will enablenew readers to appreciate the full range ofcontributors on offer,and regular readers toredouble the pleasures of acquaintance.AsDominic Lawson writes in his Foreword:'This,I suppose,is the essence of a good  \nanthology:a collection of articles which are evenmore illuminating in retrospect than they werewhen first written.'  \nBalancing serious writing with the ability to makethe reader laugh,the pieces-arranged  \nchronologically-follow the unfolding events ofthe year.Between Timothy Garton Ash's rivetingringside articles on the death of communism inEastern Europe,Vaclav Havel's great first speechas President of Czechoslovakia('People,yourGovernment has returned to you!')and FerdinandMount's commentary on the sound of hammers atthe Berlin Wall(a noise 'both eerie and cheerful,amixture of Wagner's dwarfs and Walt Disney's'),we canglimpse the best of the regular High,Newand Low Lives(Taki,Zenga Longmore and JeffreyBernard),the consequences when Auberon Waugh'nearly kissed an unknown young woman on theTube',and Wallace Arnold’s musings on MissPamella Bordes and the Ayatollah Khomeini.  \nThe cartoonists,led by Michael Heath,offer manya subversive aside,and Nicholas Garland recordsthe daft questions cartoonists are sometimesasked in'Can you draw properly if you want to?'Minette Marrin discusses the use Mrs Thatcherhas made of her gender;Murray Sayle recalls 'thenight our house burnt down'in Tokyo;  \nP.J.Kavanagh shares his pleasant experiences ofIreland;A.N.Wilson'turns to Labour';PeregrineWorsthorne is sacked at breakfast;Jock Bruce-Gardyne has some moving'intimations ofmortality';and in his last article before he died,  \nA.J.Ayer reflects on the French Revolution.  \nPoems,reviews,humorous competitions,profiles,diary entries,political and social reportage:allcombine to make a perfect feast of wit and style.  \nIIlustrated with over 60 cartoons  \nTHE  \nSPECTATORANNUAL  \nOther Spectator books  \nViews from Abroad:The Spectator Book of Travel Writing  \nArticles of War:The Spectator Book of World War I  \nBritain in the Eighties:The Spectator's View of the Thatcher Decade  \nTHE  \nSPECTATORANNUAL  \nEdited by Fiona Glass  \nForeword by Dominic Lawson  \nGRAFTON BOOKS  \nA Division of the Collins Publishing Group  \nLONDON GLASGowTORONTO SYDNEY AUCKLAND  \nGrafton Books  \nA Division of the Collins Publishing Group8 Grafton Street,London W1X3LA  \nPublished by Grafton Books 1990  \nCopyright   The Spectator 1990  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data  \nThe Spectator annual.1990-  \n1.General serials in English052  \nISBN 0-246-13697-9  \nPrinted in Great Britain byHartnolls Ltd,Bodmin,Cornwall  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this publication may bereproduced,stored in a retrieval system,or transmitted,in any form or by any means,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording or otherwise,without the priorpermission of the publisher.  \nCONTENTS  \nFOREWORD by Dominic LawsonixEDITORIAL NOTExiTIME TO TURN TO LABOUR A.N.WilsonSORRY,WRONG TITLE Jaspistos6STOMACH-TURNING Wendy Cope9AFORE YE GO Wallace Arnold11BUFFING UP MANNERS James Michie13MOScow DIARY Charles Moore16'CAN YOU DRAW PROPERLY IF YOU WANT TO?'Nicholas Garland 19CEAUSESCU'S MEMORIAL James de Candole22CHERCHEZ LA FEMME Minette Marrin25BUTTON-HOLED Jeffrey Bernard31LET US SALUTE THEM P.J.Kavanagh33SETTING OFF ON THE GRAND TOUR WITH A EURODOGGLEFOR ALL SEASONS Christopher Fildes36THE NIGHT OUR HOUSE BURNT DOWN Murray Sayle37LITTLE BROWN MISS AND HER AUNTY SWEETS Richard West42THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD Vernon Scannell46DOG'S DINNER Alice Thomas Ellis48COMMUNISM GIVES UP THE GHOST Timothy Garton Ash50THE GREATFALL OF CHINA Stephen Handelman54IRAN'S PROPHET Amit Roy60AFORE YE GO Wallace Arnold64CREDIT WHEREIT'S DUE Jeffrey 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Wilson\n## Sorry, Wrong Title - Jaspistos\n## Stomach-Turning - Wendy Cope\n## Afore Ye Go - Wallace Arnold\n## Buffing Up Manners - James Michie\n## Moscow Diary - Charles Moore\n## Can You Draw Properly if You Want to? - Nicholas Garland\n## Ceausecu's Memorial - James de Candole\n## Cherchez la Femme - Minette Marrin\n## Button-Holed - Jeffrey Bernard\n## Let Us Salute Them - P.J. 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