CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Ian Aitken
• Julia Annas
• John Barrell
• Mary Beard
• Patricia Beer
• Peter Clarke
• D.J. Enright
• Penelope Fitzgerald
• Michael Hofmann
• R.W. Johnson
• Mary Kaldor
• Keith Kyle
• Sylvia Lawson
• Victor Mallet
• Tim Rowse
• Richard Stern
• John Sutherland
• Julian Symons
• Hugo Williams

Contents

• Ian Aitken

  • John Major: The Making of the Prime Minister by Bruce Anderson
  • ‘My Style of Government’: The Thatcher Years by Nicholas Ridley

• Letters
  Paul Seabright, Georgina Born, Ania Loomba, Richard Jacobs, Karl Miller, John Powell Ward, Editors, ‘London Review’

• Peter Clarke

  • Suez by Keith Kyle

• R.W. Johnson
  Lions, Princes, Bosses

• Keith Kyle

  • The Iraqi Revolution of 1958: The Old Social Classes Revisited edited by Robert Fernea and William Roger Louis
  • Instant Empire: Saddam Hussein’s Ambition for Iraq by Simon Henderson
  • Saddam Hussein: A Political Biography by Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi
  • The Gulf Between Us: The Gulf War and Beyond edited by Victoria Brittain
  • Under Siege in Kuwait: A Survivor’s Story by Jadranka Porter

• Victor Mallet

  • Arms and the Man: Dr Gerlad Bull, Iraq and the Supergun by William Lowther

• Mary Kaldor

  • Statement on the Defence Estimates: Britain’s Defence for the Nineties

• Sylvia Lawson

  • Patrick White: A Life by David Marr

• Tim Rowse

  • Charles Perkins: A Biography by Peter Read

• D.J. Enright

  • The New Oxford Book of 16th-Century Verse edited by Emrys Jones

• Michael Hofmann

  • Seeing things by Seamus Heaney

• John Barrell

  • Constable by Leslie Parris and Ian Fleming-Williams
  • Romatic Ecology: Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition by Jonathan Bate

• Julian Symons

  • Lipstick, Sex and Poetry by Jeremy Reed
  • A poet could not but be gay by James Kirkup
  • There was a young man from Cardiff by Dannie Abse
  • String of Beginners by Michael Hamburger

• John Sutherland

  • ProfScam: Professors and the Demise of Higher Education by Charles Sykes
  • Tenured Redicals: How politics has corrupted our Higher Education by Roger Kimball

• Mary Beard

  • You just don’t understand: Women and Men in Conversation by Deborah Tannen

• Julia Annas

  • Feminism without Illusions: A Critique of Individualism by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

• Richard Stern
  Derridiarry

• Patricia Beer

  • Lives in the Shadow with J. Krishnamurti by Radha Rajagopal Sloss

• Hugo Williams
  Poem: ‘Siren’

• Penelope Fitzgerald

  • The Best Type of Girl: A History of the Girls’ Independent Schools by Gillian Avery
  • There’s something about a convent girl edited by Jackie Bennett and Rosemary Forgan