Published to coincide with the Conservative Party conference, Gray and Willetts comment on a highly topi cal subject following the election and the splits that run d eep within the Conservative party '
John Nicholas Gray is a English political philosopher with interests in analytic philosophy and the history of ideas. He retired in 2008 as School Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Gray contributes regularly to The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement and the New Statesman, where he is the lead book reviewer.