Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Bayley
• Dinah Birch
• Elaine Feinstein
• Jerry Fodor
• Eric Foner
• Conor Gearty
• Anthony Lester
• Seumas Milne
• Patrick O’Brian
• Peter Parsons
• Robin Robertson
• Elisa Segrave
• Galen Strawson
• Colm Tóibín
• Bernard Williams

Contents

• Seumas Milne

  • The Blair Revolution: Can New Labour Deliver? by Peter Mandelson and Roger Liddle

• Letters
  Hilda Bernstein, Gillian Slovo, W.J. McCormack, J. Staples, Jenny Hartley, Timothy Garton Ash, Philip Smout, Nick James, Bernard Burgoyne, Chris Oakley, Haya Oakley, Robert Crawford, Elizabeth Spencer, Raymond Tallis, Hugh Leonard, Jason Wilson

• Conor Gearty

  • Scott Inquiry Report by Richard Scott

• Anthony Lester
  Judges and Ministers

• Patrick O’Brian

  • Francis Drake: The Lives of a Hero by John Cummins

• Eric Foner

  • A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution by Theodore Draper

• Colm Tóibín

  • Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation by Declan Kiberd

• Elaine Feinstein
  Poem: ‘Tony’

• Robin Robertson
  Poem: ‘Circus on Calton Hill’

• Bernard Williams
  On Hating and Despising Philosophy

• Jerry Fodor

  • Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins

• Galen Strawson
  The Sense of the Self

• Peter Parsons

  • Ancient Greek Novels: The Fragments edited by Susan Stephens and John Winkler

• Dinah Birch

  • Love, Again by Doris Lessing
  • Playing the Game by Doris Lessing, illustrated by Charlie Adlard

• Elisa Segrave
  Diary

• John Bayley

  • Foreign Country: The Life of L.P. Hartley by Adrian Wright