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A Wealth Of Material

Duncan Fallowell A LIFELONG PASSION: NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA, THEIR OWN STORY by Andrei Maylunas and Sergei Mironenko Weidenfeld, £20, pp. 667 S o much could be said about this......

No End Of A Lesson

Theodore Dalrymple ALL MUST HAVE PRIZES by Melanie Phillips Little, Brown, £17.50, pp. 288 L ast week, I asked a girl aged 15 to multiply three by nine. One could almost hear......