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Amid The Encircling Gloom

Clare Pollen FLUDD by Hilary Mantel Viking, £11.95. pp.I86 0 n Wednesday the bishop came in person. He was a modern prelate, brisk and plump in his rimless glasses, and he liked......

The Politics Of Truth

Denis Hills THE USES OF ADVERSITY by Timothy Garton Ash Granta Books, £13.95, pp.305 I n these articles and essays written be- tween 1983 and 1989, Ash examines the Communist......