Cover: Henry Hering

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Bayley
• Gordon Brown
• Martyn Crucefix
• Fred D’Aguiar
• Gavin Ewart
• Paul Foot
• P.N. Furbank
• Ian Gilmour
• John Griffith
• Christopher Hitchens
• Michael Hofmann
• Michael Howard
• Christopher Huhne
• Glyn Maxwell
• Geoff Mulgan
• Walter Nash
• Patrick Parrinder
• William Rodgers
• Miriam Rothschild
• John Sutherland
• Julian Symons
• Michael Young

Contents

• Michael Howard
  Impressions from a Journey in Central Europe

• Letters
  Malathy Sitaram, Jack Treiman, James Bacque, Basil Davidson, D.A. Slade, Paul Crichton, William Arrowsmith, J.P. Stern, Bruno Nightingale

• Michael Hofmann
  Two Poems

• Christopher Huhne

  • Reflections on the Revolution in Europe by Ralf Dahrendorf

• Ian Gilmour

  • The Economic Limits to Modern Politics edited by John Dunn

• Gordon Brown and Geoff Mulgan

  • The Competitive Advantage of Nations by Michael Porter

• Martyn Crucefix
  Poem: ‘Timewise’

• Miriam Rothschild

  • The Ants by Bert Hölldobler and E.O. Wilson

• Michael Young
  Down with Age

• Glyn Maxwell
  Poem: ‘Got me’

• John Griffith

  • Lord Denning: A Biography by Edmund Heward

• Paul Foot

  • No Other Choice by George Blake
  • Inside Intelligence by Anthony Cavendish

• Christopher Hitchens

  • Crossman: The Pursuit of Power by Anthony Howard

• P.N. Furbank

  • A War Imagined: The First World War and English Culture by Samuel Hynes
  • Killing in Verse and Prose, and Other Essays by Paul Fussell

• Fred D’Aguiar
  Poem: ‘A Gift of a Rose’

• John Bayley

  • Yours, Plum: The Letters of P.G. Wodehouse edited by Frances Donaldson

• Patrick Parrinder

  • Notes on the Underground: An Essay on Technology, Society and the Imagination by Rosalind Williams
  • The Mask of the Prophet: The Extraordinary Fictions of Jules Verne by Andrew Martin

• Gavin Ewart
  Cat Poems

• John Sutherland

  • The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History by Robert Darnton

• William Rodgers
  Diary

• Julian Symons

  • Paul Scott: A Life by Hilary Spurling
  • Paul Scott’s Raj by Robin Moore

• Walter Nash

  • The Twitter Machine: Reflections on Language by Neil Smith
  • English in Use by Randolph Quirk and Gabriele Stein