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A reserve for whoopsies

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A reserve for whoopsies THE orderly procession of big banks announcing billion-pound profits was marred by the National Westminster, which homed in on a banana skin and stood...

Cheltenham bumper

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Cheltenham bumper MY racing correspondent, Captain Threadneedle, and I have got our eyes on Gordofl Brown. If he becomes Chancellor, he sayS, he will move the Budget back to...

Strength through misery

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Strength through misery THE disaster was Helmut Kohl's contribution. It suited his book to pretend that an East German mark was worth as much as a mark from the West. When the...

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[The Germans, said Churchill, in a...]

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CITY AND SUBURBAN Off its back, on its knees, losing its fans - Germany is not a working model CHRISTOPHER FILDES T he Germans, said Churchill in a moment of hostility, are...

Brown out

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Brown out ANYONE wondering how the economy might be managed with Labour in office can now turn to The Wilson Years (The J4is torians' Press, £30), Sir Alec CairnCrOssI Treasury...

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Eagerly awaited

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Eagerly awaited Sir: Philip Hensher says the best Edith Sitwell letters are to the painter Pavel ChClichev (Books, 22 February). I was told by Chelichev in 1950 that their...

More blue than red

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More blue than red Sir: Peter Oborne's article on publishing correctness ('I'll not buy a book by that terrible little man', 1 March) was amusing but inaccurate. It would be...

Cave McKay

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Cave McKay Sir: I was delighted to read that your correspondent Stephen Glover has unveiled the egregious Peter McKay as the author behind the new Ephraim Hardcastle column in...

Plan 17

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Plan 17 Sir: Robert Tombs (Letters, 1 March) writes that the Schlieffen Plan 'was indeed secret: how else can one explain the aln10st fatal French failure to take precautiol]s...

A good trooper

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L E T T E R S -- I A good trooper Sir: I am so glad Bruce Anderson came to the defence of Mrs Howard (Politics, I March). As Sandra Paul she was one of the top photographic...

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Chapter and verse

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Chapter and verse Sir: It seems a bit odd entering the 'who's Ali?' contest from the other side of the globe but, thanks to some research work on Australian second world war...

Fatal thrusts

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Fatal thrusts Sir: Terence Conran's love of ox cheek (Letters 1 March) and Quaglino's is shared by many, but like a goaded bull in a Spanish flag he has addressed the wrong...

Dark secret

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Dark secret Sir: I see from the letter from Mr Claus von Bilow (1 March) that the identity of the Man in the Iron Mask remains a mystery in England. A few years ago a French...

Unforgivable

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Unforgivable Sir: One of the few legitimate charges against Sir Winston Churchill (Letters, 22 February) is that it is precisely his leadership which did assure the survival of...

Spiritual rugby

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Spiritual rugby Sir: Lunching in a Murrayfield restaurant, a French friend hailed the approaching dessert trolley with a 'Swing Low, Sweet Chariot' (Letters, 22 February). Guy...

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W. H. AUDEN: PROSE, 1926-1938 edited by Edward Mendelson

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_ B O OKS M allarm6 once witheringly advised a Painter, struggling with a poem, that Sonnets are not made with ideas, but with Words'. The best English poets would not go along...

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DEEPER by John Seabrook

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The seductive lure of the e-mail Andrew Brown DEEPER by John Seabrook Faber, f]2.99, pp. 288 John Seabrook is rich, young and athletic. He was educated at Princeton and...

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WHAT FALLS AWAY by Mia Farrow

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Her stardust memories Helen Osborne WHAT FALLS AWAY by Mia Farrow Doubleday, £16.99, pp. 370 Roman Polanski, who directed Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby, remarked, 'There are...

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TRUNK MUSIC by Michael Connolly

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The best from America Michael Carlson TRUNK MUSIC by Michael Connolly Orion1 £16.99, pp. 375 The Los Angeles inhabited by LAPD detective Hieronymous 'Harry' Bosch resembles...

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Character building

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Arts diarArts Fdiary Character building John Parry Do you remember that excellent and enlightened scheme that was developed and supported by the Arts Council and which...

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Chinese whispers

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Pop music Chinese whispers Marcus Berkmann A new album, a lifetime achievement gong at the Brits, a suitably reverent profile on The South Bank Show - the Bee Gees are back...

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Orpheus and Eurydice

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Opera Orpheus and Eurydice (English National Opera) A giddy pace Michael Tanner Love, seemingly irreparable loss, the power of music, trust, self-command - the Orpheus myth...

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The Slow Drag (Freedom, Soho) St Nicholas (Bush) The Importance of Being Oscar (Savoy, from 18 March)

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Theatre The Slow Drag (Freedom, Soho) St Nicholas (Bush) The Importance of Being Oscar (Savoy, from 18 March) A lost world Sheridan Morley Two remarkable solo plays (as...

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Mixed blessing

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Radio Mixed blessing Michael Vestey Every week, radio reviewers are sent preview cassette tapes of programmes, big brown padded envelopes full of them, delivered by a...

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The turf

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The turf Head versus heart Robin Oakley There is no sporting sight more exciting than well-matched horses rounding the final turn at Cheltenham together, their riders going...

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SPECTATOR SPORT

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SPECTATOR SPORT MICHELLE SMITH swam in Ireland for the first time in two years and my colleague On the Times compared her to Eva Peron. Smith won three gold medals at the...