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Our Longest Peace

Harry Mount THE STRUGGLE FOR EUROPE: THE HISTORY OF THE CONTINENT SINCE 1945 by William Hitchcock Profile, £25, pp. 513, ISBN 1861972334 H as anybody ever struggled for Europe?......

Every Fair From Fair Sometime Declines

Andrew Gimson HARD WORK: LIFE IN LOW-PAY BRITAIN by Polly Toynbee Bloomsbury. £6.99, pp. 256. ISBN 0747564159 P olly Toynbee describes herself as 'profoundly anti-religious',......