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Commando Leader In Politics

John Grigg THE ASHDOWN DIARIES, VOLUME I, 1988-1997 by Paddy Ashdown Allen Lane, £20, pp. 638 N aive, they call him. Well, if Sir Paddy Ashdown is naive, naivety is clearly no......

The Morality Of The Omelette

Digby Anderson D erek Cooper is a ruminator who pon- ders potato varieties, the decline of water- cress consumption, snail feasts, starved smoked eels and flavours of walnut......