Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Christopher de Bellaigue
• Alan Bennett
• Peter Campbell
• Barbara Everett
• Jeremy Harding
• Ian Jack
• Dan Jacobson
• Kathleen Jamie
• Alison Jolly
• Hilary Mantel
• Benjamin Markovits
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Tom Paulin
• Stephen Sedley
• Mary-Kay Wilmers

Contents

• Alan Bennett
  Secrets are best kept by those who have no sense of humour: Why I turned down ‘Big Brother’

• Letters
  Bruce Clunies Ross, Richard Davies, Jeremy Hawthorn, R.B. Russell, Rex Winsbury, Joanna Griffiths, Alex Smith, Michael Fry

• Hilary Mantel
  Giving up the Ghost: My Life as a Boy

• Stephen Sedley
  No More Victors’ Justice?: On Trying War Crimes

• Ian Jack

  • Sober Men and True: Sailor Lives in the Royal Navy 1900-45 by Christopher McKee
  • Rule Britannia: The Victorian and Edwardian Navy by Peter Padfield

• Tom Paulin
  Poem: ‘On Being Dealt the Anti-Semitic Card’

• Mary-Kay Wilmers
  Short Cuts: remembering D.A.N. Jones

• Barbara Everett
  A Dreame of Passion: Shakespeare’s Most Peculiar Play

• Kathleen Jamie
  Two Poems

• Christopher de Bellaigue
  The Martyrdom of Hossein Kharrazi: in the Rose Garden of the Martyrs

• Peter Campbell
  At the British Museum: Dürer

• Andrew O’Hagan

  • I Don't Want to Fight by Lulu
  • Billy by Pamela Stephenson
  • Just for the Record by Geri Halliwell
  • Learning to Fly by Victoria Beckham
  • Right from the Start by Gareth Gates
  • Honest by Ulrika Jonsson

• Jeremy Harding

  • Madcap: The Half-Life of Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd’s Lost Genius by Tim Willis

• Dan Jacobson

  • Way Up Way Out by Harold Strachan

• Benjamin Markovits

  • Shroud by John Banville

• Alison Jolly
  Diary: Among Lemurs