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The Hope Of The Poor

Paul Foot NEVER A YES MAN: THE LIFE AND POLITICS OF AN ADOPTED LIVERPUDLIAN by Eric Heifer Verso, £16.95, pp. 242 T he awful news that they had only a few months to live had the......

A Whopper Landed By Central Casting

Sidney Vines I f this book were a horse it would be called Fly Fishing by Michael Russell out of Yellow Pages: veterinary surgeon — Peter Lapsley. It all had its origins in a......