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Modest To A Fault

Alan Clark SOME OF US: PEOPLE WHO DID WELL UNDER THATCHER by Julian Critchley John Murray. £14.95, pp. 188 T he majority of back-benchers, for at least a decade of their lives......

Apparent Failure Loosens The Links

J. Enoch Powell BRITONS: FORGING THE NATION, 1707-1837 by Linda Colley Yale, £19.95, pp. 432 A remarkable amount of light is shed upon current and coming events by a new study......