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The Death Of Politics

Robin Harris asks what is the point of party conferences when the Labour and Tory leaders both despise political ideas THE LUDICROUS interlude of the Lib- eral Party Conference......

Fifty Years Ago

By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept. By Elizabeth Smart. (Edi- tions Poetry London. Nicholson and Watson. 6s.) It would perhaps be easy to criticise this book — and it......