The results presented in this talk are a summary of significant developments in the study of diffraction at HERA during the last year. The financial support of the DESY Directorate and PPARC allowed me to participate in this research, whilst based at DESY, for which I am very grateful. It is a pleasure to thank Halina Abramowicz, Ela Barberis, Nick Brook, Allen Caldwell, John Dainton, Robin Devenish, Thomas Doeker, Robert Klanner, Henri Kowalski, Aharon Levy, Julian Phillips, Jeff Rahn, Laurel Sinclair, Ian Skillicorn, Ken Smith, Juan Terron, Jim Whitmore and Günter Wolf for their encouragement, enthusiasm, help and advice. Finally, thanks to Mike Whalley for his organisation at the workshop and for keeping me to time in these written proceedings.