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Reformer At Large

Kenneth Lindsay William Beveridge Jose Harris (OUP £9.50) Would this particular biography have been written if there had been no Beveridge Report, known to most countries of the......

Outrageous Fraud

Adam Fergusson Devolution: The End of Britain? Tam Dalyell (Jonathan Cape £4.95; paperback £2.95) In all the sorry tale of how John the Baptist lost his head, the sorriest......