Vol. 12 No. 20 · 25 October 1990

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Henry Hering

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Vol. 12 No. 20 · 25 October 1990

Michael Howard

Impressions from a Journey in Central Europe

Letters

Malathy Sitaram, Jack Treiman, James Bacque, Basil Davidson, D.A. Slade, Paul Crichton, William Arrowsmith, J.P. Stern, Bruno Nightingale

Michael Hofmann

Two Poems

Christopher Huhne

Reflections on the Revolution in Europe by Ralf Dahrendorf

Ian Gilmour

The Economic Limits to Modern Politics edited by John Dunn

Gordon Brown and Geoff Mulgan

The Competitive Advantage of Nations by Michael Porter

Martyn Crucefix

Poem: ‘Timewise’

Miriam Rothschild

The Ants by Bert Hölldobler and E.O. Wilson

Michael Young

Down with Age

Glyn Maxwell

Poem: ‘Got me’

John Griffith

Lord Denning: A Biography by Edmund Heward

Paul Foot

No Other Choice by George Blake
Inside Intelligence by Anthony Cavendish

Christopher Hitchens

Crossman: The Pursuit of Power by Anthony Howard

P.N. Furbank

A War Imagined: The First World War and English Culture by Samuel Hynes
Killing in Verse and Prose, and Other Essays by Paul Fussell

Fred D’Aguiar

Poem: ‘A Gift of a Rose’

John Bayley

Yours, Plum: The Letters of P.G. Wodehouse edited by Frances Donaldson

Patrick Parrinder

Notes on the Underground: An Essay on Technology, Society and the Imagination by Rosalind Williams
The Mask of the Prophet: The Extraordinary Fictions of Jules Verne by Andrew Martin

Gavin Ewart

Cat Poems

John Sutherland

The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History by Robert Darnton

William Rodgers

Diary: Party Conference Jamboree

Julian Symons

Paul Scott: A Life by Hilary Spurling
Paul Scott’s Raj by Robin Moore

Walter Nash

The Twitter Machine: Reflections on Language by Neil Smith
English in Use by Randolph Quirk and Gabriele Stein

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