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In Defence Of A Distinctive British Culture

Michael Bentley THE LESSONS OF HISTORY by Michael Howard OUP, £17.50, pp. 217 W ith the tanks and oil-wells still blaz- ing in the desert, Sir Michael Howard could hardly have......

Unfortunate Women Of Cambridge

Anita Brookner AIR AND ANGELS by Susan Hill Sinclair-Stevenson, f13.95, pp. 276 A clergyman in his mid fifties and a girl of 15. It sounds unpromising, and in many ways it is,......

Noon

To encounter a God is not everyone's thing. But you don't get asked. There he stands in the sunken road, goat-eyed, the ocean on his horns... And suddenly the wind drops. Who......