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42London witness

PAUL BARKER Nikolaus Pevsner wanted his guides to show that English architecture could match anything in Europe. His guide to east London, now revised, opened my eyes in the 1960s.

WITNESS 48Britain’s front line

JAMES FERGUSSON Lunar House in Croydon is the dump where most asylum seekers have their claims processed. For Britain to have robust and fair border controls, it has got to start working better.

COLUMNS 10Out ofmind

PAUL BROKS Introducing Broks’s Paradox.

19Washington watch

TUMBLER Condi vs Hillary?

47France profonde

TIM KING Strange birth of the French biopic.

52Brussels diary

MANNEKEN PIS This sporting life.

80These islands

KEN WORPOLE Cars are killing our gardens.

REGULARS 3Foreword 6Letters 8News & Curiosities plus Enigmas & puzzles IAN STEWART 13Numbers game THE CRUNCHER 75Classifieds 78The generalist DIDYMUS 79The list

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69Just don’t call it paternalism

TOM NUTTALL Richard Layard may have hit upon a new defining mission for politics. It’s just a pity he can’t call it what it is.

FICTION 54After a life

YIYUN LI For 28 years, Mr and Mrs Su have kept their daughter hidden away from the world.

REVIEWS 64The fading ofFreud

BRENDA MADDOX Talking cures have their place, but psychoanalytic theory has faded into brain science. Adam Phillips’s attempt to define sanity is beside the point.

65Return ofthe social novel

JONATHON KEATS Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel about clones is more Henry James than Aldous Huxley. It has Victorian echoes.

67A unified theory ofmusic?

RODERICK SWANSTON Richard Taruskin’s six-volume history of western classical music is personal, incomplete and magnificent.

CULTURAL TOURIST 72The design concept

EMMA CRICHTON-MILLER The age of the design prize is here. Plus news and listings.

COLUMNS 62Widescreen

OLIVIA JUDSON Finally, some proper Hollywood sex.

71Private view

BEN LEWIS Bacon’s pictures are like bacon.

74Musical notes

STEPHEN EVERSON Singing while sick.

FORTHCOMING

GeoffMulgan reflects on seven years in government

Julian Evans tilts at Cervantes

Anatole Kaletsky on whatever happened to the business cycle

Margaret Drabble reads the Dictionary of National Biography

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