18 NOVEMBER 1989, page 41

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......

Five Thriller Writers At Their Best

Harriet Waugh D ick Francis' annual treat for his admirers is out, and it is a good one. The story races along without any phoney plotting to slow it down. The hero of Straight......

A Village Remembrance

The ceremony at the Cenotaph Gets days like this. It's very still and dank. My father, grave and pinched, wears a thick scarf But stands dead rigid like the sombre rank Of......