In this issue: What Honor did next (Helen Langley); William Ewart Gladstone (Simon Heffer); Some cornerstones still in place (Tudor Jones); review of Clarke, Kind of Blue: A political memoir, Cameron, For the Record and Letwin, Hearts and Minds: The battle for the Conservative Party from Thatcher to the present (Duncan Brack); review of Hargreaves, Laybourn and Toye (eds.), Liberal Reform and Industrial Relations: J. H. Whitley (1866–1935) – Halifax Radical and Speaker of the House of Commons (Michael Meadowcroft); review of Blaxill, The War of Words: The language of British elections, 1880–1914 (Iain Sharpe).