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The Influence Of A Simple Style

Ian Gilmour THOMAS PAINE by A. J. Ayer Secker & Warburg, £12.95, pp. 195 T he son of a Quaker staymaker in Thetford, Tom Paine greatly affected the American revolution, failed......

Stone Walls Do Not A System Make

John Mortimer A MATTER OF JUSTICE: THE LEGAL SYSTEM IN FERMENT by Michael Zander I. B. Tauris, £16.50, pp.323 W hat is wrong with the citizens of the United Kingdom? Why are we......