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Taxing Ingenuity

Peter Paterson The Vestey Affair Phillip Knightley (Macdonald pp. 159, £7.95) There used to be a crude working-class joke about — presumably — the Prince Consort being the......

Exiles

A.N. Wilson Last Quadrant Meira Chand (John Murray pp. 194, £6.95) The English, like the damp and the Jews, will get in anywhere; their expatriate survival in all parts of the......