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In Quest Of The Mirage Of The Small Platoon

Samuel Brittan ACCOUNTABLE TO NONE: THE TORY NATIONALISATION OF BRITAIN by Simon Jenkins Hamish Hamilton, 16.99, pp. 304 A lthough the state spends in one way or another two......

They Were Giants Then

John Mortimer GREAT PARLIAMENTARY SCANDALS: FOUR CENTURIES OF CALUMNY, SMEAR AND INNUENDO by Matthew Parris, with a foreword by David Mellor Robson, £16.95, pp. 368 T hose......