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A Fashion Past Its Peak

Bryan Gould PRIVATISING THE WORLD by Oliver Letwin Cassell, f19.95, £9.95, pp. 176 hen Mrs Thatcher came to power, privatisation was no more than a gleam in the eyes of some of......

Painters And Self-portraits

Francis King THE TRUTH ABOUT LORIN JONES by Alison Lurie Michael Joseph, £11.95, pp. 294 E very biographer — Michael Holroyd with Strachey and John, Victoria Glendin- ning with......