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What Has Become Of The Welfare State

David Willetts LOSING OUT by Frank Field Basil Blackwell, £22.50, pp. 196 T here are two main genres of socialist criticism of the Government's social poli- cies. Some thinkers......

Close, Brief Or Of A Third Kind

Patrick Skene Catling ENCOUNTERS edited by Kai Erikson Yale University Press, £14.95, pp.163 A fter all the superfluous details of so many unduly protracted biographies, it is......