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LEFTVERSUSRIGHT defined the 20th century WHAT’SNEXT?

MARCH 2007

POLITICS ESSAYS ARGUMENT

BRITAIN'S DEFENCE DISASTER Lewis Page

PUTIN'S OIL CURSE Robert Skidelsky

CLASSICAL RECORDING DIES Norman Lebrecht

In this issue:

Hobsbawm, Lovelock, Eno, Byatt, and many others on political futures

PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF backs the idea of buying the Afghan opium crop

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PETER BAZALGETTE Jade Goody is no racist, says Big Brother’s boss

TERRY EAGLETON reads some scintillatingly shallow criticism

IAN STEWART Arecomputers killing mathematical proof?

ED SMITH on the fall of West Indian cricket

LUCY KELLAWAY “An averagely prurient reader will want to read myconfession”

FICTION by James Lasdun