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doesn’tmatter Whythemiddleeast EDWARD LUTTWAK

MAY 2007

POLITICS ESSAYS ARGUMENT

WHEREAREALLTHE FUNNY WRITERS? Julian Gough

UNDERSTANDINGBLAIRISM David Soskice

PARENTS ANDPERSONALITY Judith Rich Harris

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In this issue:

STEPHEN EALES The story of Pluto’s demotion

MICK FEALTY on Ian Paisley’s long journey

ANTHONY GIDDENS VS DAVID WILLETTS Have the Tories really changed?

OLIVIA JUDSON The problems of putting science on stage

RICHARD DOWDEN Is the international criminal court damaging peace?

JOE BOYD on the white men who rediscovered the blues

CAR HILLS “ I go into obsessivecompulsive chanting in my jail cell ”