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Books

Between the phobes and the philes Michael Portillo MAJOR: A POLITICAL LIFE by Anthony Seldon Weidenfeld, £20, pp. 512 I n about 1988, when John Major was Chief Secretary to the......

Fiddler, Statesman, But No Buffoon

Nicholas Farrell MUSSOLINI by Jasper Ridley Constable, £25, pp. 430 hough Italy is awash with them, there have been few biographies of Mussolini in English — some half a dozen......