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All The Stage's A World

Michael Portillo OPERA AND POLITICS by John Bokina Yale, L17.50, pp. 264 W hen I picked up this excellent book by John Bokina, I mistakenly thought it was called Politics and......

Most Can Manage God

Digby Anderson DOES CHRISTIANITY CAUSE WAR? by David Martin Clarendon Press, £30, pp. 226 D avid Martin wants 'to discuss a ques- tion which is actually asked'. Professor Martin......

Patience On A Monument

Sophia Watson A PERFECT WIFE by Cristina Odone Orion, 116.99, pp. 217 A government is in its sleaze-ridden death throes, the opposition is lying in wait, preparing for its own......