Intellectual in politics. Prime Minister and President. Challenge of barbarism. England in transition : A.J.P. Taylor's English history, 1914-1945 -- Machinery of government. Planners' place in foreign policy. Plowden Report on the Foreign and Commonwealth Services. Defining the limits of official responsibility. Examining the working of Whitehall. Making the Civil Service more outward-looking. Comes the devolution? -- Lucien Wolf and the Anglo-Russian Entente 1907-1914. Sixth of February. Anglo-French Union project of June 1940. Special relationship : an Anglo-American myth. Reflections on intervention -- Soviet studies - and Russian reality. Before the flood. Neglected historical novel -- Zionism as nationalism. Rootless cosmopolitans? Israel-haters -- English as a 'second language'. Crisis in parliamentary democracy. Apartheid policy under new leadership. Isolation of South African universities. Indian universities and their problems : some first impressions. 'Imperial sunset.'