Cover: M.C. Escher

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Vernon Bogdanor
• Frank Cioffi
• Tam Dalyell
• James Fishkin
• Richard Gregory
• Frank Kermode
• James Michie
• Fergus Millar
• Jane Miller
• Rosalind Mitchison
• R.E. Pahl
• Tom Paulin
• Claude Rawson
• Peter Redgrove
• Christopher Ricks
• Oliver Sacks
• A.J.P. Taylor
• Lorna Tracy
• Raymond Williams

Contents

• Oliver Sacks
  The Leg

• Letters
  Francis King, Christopher Ricks, David Cannadine, Jan Smith, Joseph Ginsburg, Francis FitzGibbon, Prabhu Guptara

• James Fishkin
  More democracy?

• Vernon Bogdanor

  • Democracy at the Polls: A Comparative Study of Competitive National Elections edited by David Butler, Howard Penniman and Austin Ranney

• Rosalind Mitchison

  • The Population History of England 1541-1871: A Reconstruction by E.A. Wrigley and R.S. Schofield

• Frank Cioffi

  • Psycho Politics by Peter Sedgwick
  • The Voice of Experience by R.D. Laing

• Richard Gregory

  • The Mind’s Best Work by D.N. Perkins
  • The Mathematical Experience by Philip Davis and Reuben Hersh

• Frank Kermode

  • A Moving Target by William Golding

• Christopher Ricks

  • From the Land of Shadows by Clive James

• Jane Miller writes about the axing of the Schools Council and the implications of this for educational research

• Tom Paulin

  • Re-Reading English edited by Peter Widdowson
  • Against Criticism by Iain McGilchrist

• R.E. Pahl

  • Inner-City Poverty in Paris and London by Peter Willmott and Charles Madge
  • The Inner City in Context edited by Peter Hall
  • New Perspectives in Urban Change and Conflict edited by Michael Harloe
  • The Politics of Poverty by David Donnison
  • The Politics of Poverty by Susanne MacGregor

• James Michie
  Poem: ‘Romantic Experiment’

• Fergus Millar
  Rich and Poor in the Ancient World

• Tam Dalyell
  For ever Falkland?

• Raymond Williams
  Distance

• Claude Rawson

  • St Kilda’s Parliament by Douglas Dunn
  • Airborn/Hijos del Aire by Octavio Paz and Charles Tomlinson
  • The Flood by Charles Tomlinson
  • Looking into the Deep End by David Sweetman
  • Independence by Andrew Motion

• A.J.P. Taylor
  Diary

• Peter Redgrove
  Three Poems

• Lorna Tracy
  Marriage