Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Paul Addison
• Neal Ascherson
• Robert Blake
• Victoria Brittain
• Jon Elster
• Penelope Fitzgerald
• Clive James
• Peter Jenkins
• Gabriel Josipovici
• Hugh Lloyd-Jones
• Neil McKendrick
• Derek Mahon
• David Marquand
• Peter Parsons
• Ahdaf Soueif
• Julian Symons
• Robert Taubman
• Hugh Tulloch
• Charles Villiers

Contents

• Peter Jenkins

  • Governments and Trade Unions: The British Experience 1964-79 by Denis Barnes and Eileen Reid

• David Marquand

  • The Secret Constitution by Brian Sedgemore
  • The Civil Servants by Peter Kellner and Lord Crowther-Hunt

• Letters
  Jean Raison, Hans Keller, Ezekiel Emanuel, Clive James, Garrett Barden, Freeman Dyson

• Neal Ascherson

  • The Oak and the Calf by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• Victoria Brittain

  • Ghosts of Kampala: The Rise and Fall of Idi Amin by George Ivan Smith
  • African Upheavals since Independence by G.S. Ibingira
  • A Political History of Uganda by S.R. Karugire

• Robert Blake

  • We and They, Civic and Despotic Cultures by Robert Conquest
  • The Recovery of Freedom by Paul Johnson

• Charles Villiers
  Charles Villiers, who has recently retired as Chairman of the British Steel Corporation, on his experience of trade-union power

• Paul Addison

  • Balfour by Max Egremont

• Jon Elster
  Irrational Politics

• Peter Parsons
  Antigone in middle age

• Hugh Lloyd-Jones

  • The Victorians and Ancient Greece by Richard Jenkyns

• Robert Taubman

  • Selected Works of Djuna Barnes
  • Black Venus’s Tale by Angela Carter
  • The Last Peacock by Allan Massie
  • The Birds of the Air by Alice Thomas Ellis

• Julian Symons

  • The Great Fortune, The Spoilt City, Friends and Heroes by Olivia Manning

• Neil McKendrick

  • The Wedgwood Circle, 1730-1897 by Barbara Wedgwood and Hensleigh Wedgwood

• Clive James
  Poem: ‘The Supreme Farewell of Handkerchiefs’

• Hugh Tulloch

  • On the Edge of Paradise by David Newsome

• Ahdaf Soueif
  Her Man

• Penelope Fitzgerald

  • The Colonist by Michael Schmidt

• Derek Mahon

  • Selected Poems by Donald Justice
  • Exactions by C.H. Sisson

• Gabriel Josipovici

  • Dante by George Holmes
  • The Divine Comedy: A New Verse Translation by C.H. Sisson