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If Symptoms Persist.. .

I HAVE BEEN reading a book by a pro- fessor of philosophy, a liberal in the American sense, in which the satirical old rogue maintains that there is no such thing as......

A Little Local Difficulty

Jeremy Paxman locks horns with Macmillan's biographer over a matter of parish politics THE VILLAGE of Turville in Bucking- hamshire speaks so powerfully to an image of rural......