17 MAY 1997, page 42

Off With The Raggle-taggle Gypsies

David Pryce-Jones THE SCHOLAR GYPSY by Anthony Sampson John Murray, £16, pp. 229 W ith their wild ways, their language and music, gypsies seemed to stand outside the course of......

The High Cost Of Cuts

Correlli Barnett BEYOND ENDURANCE: AN EPIC OF WHITEHALL AND THE SOUTH ATLANTIC by Nicholas Barker Leo Cooper, f19.95, pp. 244 C aptain Nick Barker RN (who sadly died on 7 April......