34BRINGING RUSSIA IN RODRIC BRAITHWAITE An expanded Nato will threaten European stability if we don’t take Russia’s objections seriously. This is not appeasement but good sense.

SHORT STORY 42SON OF ENOCH FREDERIC RAPHAEL meets his devilishly brilliant contem porary at the BM.

PORTRAIT 46ROBERT REICH STEPHANIE FLANDERS Labour intellectuals should remember that C lin ton’s favourite academic soon found h im self out in the cold.

WITNESS 52UP THE TUBE ROY KERRIDGE London's underground is underrated. It is efficient, hygienic and full of architectural delights.

SPECIAL REPORT 56BURMA’S DOLLS HOUSE ALISTAIR HORNE talks to opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and considers how the west can help her cause.

REVIEWS 60 THE GERMAN STORYTELLER JAMES HAWES wonders why the best reunification novel has not been translated.

62 ONLY CONNECTIONS ROBERT COOPER unravels Geoff Mulgan’s paradoxes of freedom.

64 REGRETS? I’VE HAD A FEW CHARLES ELTON on Mia Farrow ’s memoir of serial husbands and multiple children.

66 STILL IN HER PRIME MALCOLM BRADBURY celebrates Muriel Spark’s catholic irony.

DIGEST

74 Joining a Carmelite concent; in praise of Clinton’s welfare reform.

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REGULARS 4 /70-1 LETTERS Reclaiming Keynes from Skidelsky.

5CURIOSITIES 6 MODERN MANNERS JEREMY CLARKE Life as a psychiatric nurse.

40ONLY CONNECT ANDREW BROWN W hy CD-Roms bomb.

50THE LIST Prospect’s guide to lectures.

51THE PRISONER PETER WAYNE The voteless toast Labour.

67THE BOOKS AC GRAYLING The landslide of 1832. 68 CHOICES Prospect's pick of the arts.

69BABEL GEOFFREY WHEATCROFT Speaking up for England.

72THE LAB MICHAEL BAUM Breast cancer wrawareness.

73BUSINESS JOHN PLENDER Lessons from Fernand Braudel.

78CROSSWORD DIDYMUS

79BRUSSELS DIARY MANNEKEN PIS W hat now for Leon Brittan?

80PREVIOUS CONVICTIONS CHRISTOPHER BEAUMAN The partnership that failed.

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