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Patriotism Without A Country

Rodney Leach A DIET OF BRUSSELS: THE CHANGING FACE OF EUROPE by Leon Brittan Little, Brown, £18.99, pp. 288 W ritten in the dire tones of the cor- porate memoir (`sadly, on this......

Rooks And Castles

D. J. Taylor VACT ALCHEMIES: THE LIFE AND WORK OF MERVYN PEAKE by G. Peter Winnington Peter Owen, £18.95, pp. 263 I gnoring for a moment all the fashion- able French theorising......