Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Ashbery
• Alan Bennett
• Robin Blackburn
• M.F. Burnyeat
• Colin Burrow
• Peter Campbell
• Martin Daunton
• Norman Dombey
• Conor Gearty
• Jeremy Harding
• Rosemary Hill
• Joanna Kavenna
• Jon Lawrence
• Michael Longley
• Peter Mandler
• Tom Paulin
• Robin Robertson
• David Runciman
• Elizabeth Spelman

Contents

• Conor Gearty
  A Misreading of the Law: Why didn’t Campbell sue?

  • Report of the Inquiry into the Circumstances Surrounding the Death of Dr David Kelly CMG by Lord Hutton

• Letters
  Robert Brain, Jonathan Clark, Jane Binyon, Colin Armstrong, Michael Edwards, Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham, Fred Starr, Terry Castle

• Alan Bennett
  Postscript: The tap-dancing Lord Hutton

• Jon Lawrence

  • The Point of Departure by Robin Cook

• John Ashbery
  Three Poems

• Elizabeth Spelman

  • Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination by Barbara Taylor

• Jeremy Harding
  What to Wear to School: Marianne gets rid of the veil

• Rosemary Hill

  • Shocking! The Art and Fashion of Elsa Schiaparelli by Dilys Blum

• Michael Longley
  Two Poems

• Tom Paulin

  • John Clare: A Biography by Jonathan Bate
  • ‘I Am’: The Selected Poetry of John Clare edited by Jonathan Bate
  • John Clare, Politics and Poetry by Alan Vardy
  • John Clare Vol. V: Poems of the Middle Period 1822-37 edited by Eric Robinson, David Powell and P.M.S. Dawson

• Norman Dombey
  Short Cuts: False Intelligence

• Joanna Kavenna

  • The Tattooed Girl by Joyce Carol Oates

• David Runciman

  • Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville: A Lifelong Passion for Baseball by Stephen Jay Gould
  • Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis

• Robin Robertson
  Poem: ‘Trysts’

• Colin Burrow

  • Green Desire: Imagining Early Modern English Gardens by Rebecca Bushnell

• Peter Campbell
  At the Royal Academy: Vuillard

• Peter Mandler

  • Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character, Conduct and Perseverance by Samuel Smiles, edited by Peter Sinnema

• Martin Daunton

  • Banking on Death or, Investing in Life: The History and Future of Pensions by Robin Blackburn

• Robin Blackburn
  When I’m 65: a reply to Martin Daunton

• M.F. Burnyeat
  Diary: The Siberian concept of theft