CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Peter Campbell
• Billy Collins
• Brian Dillon
• Deborah Friedell
• Jeremy Harding
• Tony Harrison
• Eric Hobsbawm
• Peter Howarth
• R.W. Johnson
• Colin Kidd
• Adam Phillips
• Ben Rawlence
• John Sturrock
• Christopher Tayler
• Colm Tóibín
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Letters
  Mahmood Mamdani, Elliott Green, Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, David Lane, Andrew Scheuber, Alexander Scrimgeour, Louis Harovitz, Peter Loptson, M.F. Burnyeat, Michael Prior, Kathleen Bell

• Colin Kidd
  Brown v. Salmond: The Scottish Elections

• Christopher Tayler
  Heir to Blair: Among the New Tories

• Tony Harrison
  Three Poems

• Jeremy Harding
  Sarko, Ségo & Co.: The Banlieues Go to the Polls

• Brian Dillon

  • Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime by Kenneth Helphand

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies

  • 300 directed by Zack Snyder

• Adam Phillips

  • The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn

• John Sturrock
  Short Cuts: Plain Sailing

• Eric Hobsbawm

  • The Lost World of British Communism by Raphael Samuel
  • Communists and British Society 1920-91 by Kevin Morgan, Gidon Cohen and Andrew Flinn
  • Bolshevism and the British Left, Part One: Labour Legends and Russian Gold by Kevin Morgan

• R.W. Johnson

  • Michael Foot: A Life by Kenneth O. Morgan

• Billy Collins
  Two Poems

• Colm Tóibín

  • On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

• Peter Campbell
  In the Garden: Rampant Weeds

• Deborah Friedell

  • Tomorrow by Graham Swift

• Peter Howarth

  • The Man who Went into the West: The Life of R.S. Thomas by Byron Rogers

• Ben Rawlence
  Diary: in Nigeria