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Swift retribution A correspondent writes: I was sittin g alone at

a table in a bar near Olympic studios when a group of musicians took the other chairs. They were many and talking; I was brooding when a voice pushed through my reflections, laden with literary criticism: 'I read this book, see. It's about Ireland, but it's really a devastating attack on capital- ism, even though it happened 200 years ago. He's got this idea that all the Irish babies ought to be killed when they're one year old and sold to the English. You see it's relevant because it's all about Thatcher- ism, right, at the end when he says that this may sound horrible but it's no worse than what's happening already.'

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