%0 Journal Article %T Low x and diffraction: theory %A M. F. McDermott %J Physics %D 1998 %I arXiv %R 10.1088/0954-3899/25/7/308 %X Some outstanding issues in high energy scattering are discussed. Particular emphasis is placed on recent developments concerning the next-to-leading log corrections to the BFKL equation. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9812317v1