Cover: Christopher Killip

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Peter Clarke
• William Empson
• Christopher Hitchens
• Mark Illis
• John Henry Jones
• Daniel Kevles
• V.G. Kiernan
• John Levett
• Ross McKibbin
• Jane Miller
• Karl Miller
• Christopher Small
• Jonathan Steinberg
• Michael Wood
• Hugo Young

Contents

• Christopher Hitchens

  • Where there is greed: Margaret Thatcher and the Betrayal of Britain’s Future by Gordon Brown
  • CounterBlasts No 3: A Rational Advance for the Labour Party by John Lloyd

• Letters
  Christopher Price, Leonard Tivey, Kenneth White, James MacGibbon, David Roberts, Gareth Jones, Michael Cohen, Jenny Graham, Editors, ‘London Review’

• Ross McKibbin on the summer of discontent

• Jane Miller
  Blaming teachers

• Hugo Young

  • The Little Platoon: Diplomacy and the Falklands Dispute by Michael Charlton

• Karl Miller

  • Intellectuals by Paul Johnson
  • CounterBlasts No 1: God, Man and Mrs Thatcher by Jonathan Raban

• Daniel Kevles

  • Thinking about science: Max Delbrück and the Origins of Molecular Biology by Ernst Peter Fischer and Carol Lipson
  • Is science necessary? Essays on Science and Scientists by Max Perutz

• Peter Clarke

  • Arnold Toynbee: A Life by William McNeill

• Jonathan Steinberg

  • Fascism and the Mafia by Christopher Duggan
  • A Thief in the Night: The Death of Pope John Paul I by John Cornwell

• V.G. Kiernan

  • Dutch Primacy in World Trade, 1585-1740 by Jonathan Israel

• Christopher Small

  • Sacred Elephant by Heathcote Williams

• William Empson
  Teaching English in the Far East

• John Levett
  Poem: ‘Singeing’

• John Henry Jones
  Diary

• William Empson
  Three Hitherto Unpublished Poems

• Michael Wood

  • Memories of Amnesia by Laurence Shainberg
  • We find ourselves in Moontown by Jay Gummerman
  • The Russia House by John Le Carré
  • My Secret History by Paul Theroux

• Mark Illis

  • This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff