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The Appeal Of Basingstoke

Peter Kellner POLITICS FOR A RATIONAL LEFT by Eric Hobsbawm Verso, f29.95, f8.95, pp.250 I n an article in the Guardian last July. Eric Hobsbawm asked: 'Who would not rather......

A Wartime Diplomat In The Balkans

Denis Hills OPERATION AUTONOMOUS by Ivor Porter Chatto & Windus, £18, pp.268 I vor Porter went to Bucharest university as a British Council lecturer in March 1939. He describes......