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Favourites And Scapegoats

James Delingpole ARTIFICIAL PARADISES by Mike Jay Penguin, £9.99, pp. 416 A bout five years ago, I wrote a novel satirising the excesses of 'New Lad' maga- zines like Loaded.......

So Close To The Ground

William Feaver TOULOUSE-LAUTREC AND THE FIN-DE-SIECLE by David Sweetman Hodder, £25, pp. 511 T he shortness of Henri Toulouse- Lautrec has been exaggerated. True, Peter Sellers......