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Is This The Union He Wanted?

John Laughland JEAN MONNET: THE FIRST STATESMAN OF INDEPENDENCE by Francois Duchene, with a foreword by George W. Ball W.W. Norton, £22, pp. 478 I f ever there was an homme du......

Hull Is Other People

Tom Hiney GAGARIN & I by Stephen Blanchard Chatto, £9.99, pp. 249 My aunt and mother in the kitchen — a wet mid-week morning, the radio playing and steam lifting from the......