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A Realist Of The Old School

Douglas Hurd CENTURY'S ENDING: REFLECTIONS 1982-95 by George Kennan W. W. Norton, £19.95, pp.351 L et me get a small cavil out of the way — George Kennan has had 40 fruitful......

Being Beastly To The Germs

Anthony Daniels PLAGUES: THEIR ORIGIN, HISTORY AND FUTURE by Christopher Wills HarperCollins, £20, pp. 324 We all love a good plague, so long as it is far enough away, long......