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Table Talk

Waterloo or Passchendaele? DENIS BROGAN 'A damned close-run thing' the Duke of Wellington is supposed to have said of Waterloo and with his accustomed skill he patted his own......

Consuming Interest

The pains of the jet age LESLIE ADRIAN John Ruskin didn't regard going by train as travelling; it was, he said, merely being 'sent' to a place—little different from the......