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Howe's Little Red Book

Tim Congdon With every Budget the government publishes a slim, but factual, volume called the Financial Statement and Budget Report. From the colour of its outside and the s......

One Hundred Years Ago

The action for libel brought by Mr Richard Horne Shepherd against the publisher of the Athenaeum, for articles in which he had been, it was contended, variously referred to as......

Letters

Does Europe exist? Sir: How much I agree with Christopher Booker that 'Europe' is a fantasy — and how much I dispute that it is harmless! All this `forging of ties' has been......

Tv Violence

Sir: What has happened to the good old doctrine of catharsis — the .purging of the emotions by seeing them enacted on the stage — which was prescribed by Aristotle and believed......

Doubts About Darwin

Sir: , Christopher Booker's reflections on Darwinism, while interesting, have failed to point out the most serious defect of the theory of natural selection, Darwin's great......