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If Only Penge Had Done Six Across

John Cornwell SEVEN EXPERIMENTS THAT COULD CHANGE THE WORLD by Rupert Sheldnake Fourth Estate, £15.99, pp. 269 H ere is a scientific experiment suggest- ed by the experience of......

Decline, Fall And Recovery

William Buchan ASPECTS OF ARISTOCRACY by David Cannadine Yale, £19.95, pp. 321 Let wealth and commerce, law and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility! I t may be......

The Guinness Spot

After the Scottish jazz singer in the Festival barn I come on some lost acquaintances, willing to yarn as though we had never lost touch. Disintegrated dark holes in my life......