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Too Long And Too Louche

D. J. Taylor POMPEY by Jonathan Meades Cape, £14.99, pp. 472 N early 500 pages in length, long years in the writing — it is nearly a decade since Jonathan Meades' last piece of......

Shut Up And Deal

Ian Buruma THE END OF HONG KONG: THE SECRET DIPLOMACY OF IMPERIAL RETREAT by Robert Cottrell John Murray, f19.99, pp. 244 A part from a small purple patch — a mere fleck, really......