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A Yellow Streak

Matthew Parris TO RENEW AMERICA by Newt Gingrich HarperCollins, £18, pp. 272 I first caught Newt Gingrich on CNN in the small hours of the morning, in a hotel in Chile.......

Bang! Bang!

He shot me down Helen Osborne FAT CHANCE by Simon Gray Faber, £5.99, pp. 144 R evenge is one of the few sweeteners in the life of a working writer, if he has a drop of patience......