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More Like A Beauty Contest

Nicholas Fearn AGAINST EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY by Matt Cavanagh OUP, £25, pp. 217, ISBN 0199243433 M ost British philosophers would rather be boring and right than interesting......

Crazed Cabbalistic Claptrap. . .

Benji Wilson DEAD ON TIME: HOW AND WHY BARRY GEORGE EXECUTED JILL DANDO by John McVicar John Blake Publishing, £14.99, pp. 311, ISBN 1857823648 B any George murdered Jill Dando......

. . And A Catalogue Of Catastrophe

Fatema Ahmed ASSORTED FIRE EVENTS by David Means Fourth Estate, £10, pp. 165, ISBN 0007135068 E xactly halfway through this unusual collection of short stories is an arresting......