19 DECEMBER 1987, Page 40

THE SPECTATOR In the first issue of 1988, Timothy Garton

Ash will analyse the position of the superpowers after the Reagan-Gorbachev accord.

Auberon Waugh, Jeffrey Bernard, Taki, Noel Malcolm, Alice Thomas Ellis and the regular columnists will be contributing their own views of the world.

Readers in London will be able to buy the 2 January issue a day early.