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Middle Class Tendency

George Szamuely Wembley T he lights dim. The hall is shrouded in darkness. The audience becomes ex- pectant. Suddenly the silence is broken. The stirring strains of the......

A Moral Necessity

Peter Mullen M rs Thatcher has called for the return of the death penalty. When she spoke on television about her ordeal in Brighton, she did not sound vengeful or a ngry, only......