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Poles apart from party gains Geoffrey Wheatcroft A QUESTION OF LEADERSHIP: GLADSTONE TO THATCHER by Peter Clarke Hamish Hamilton, £17.99, pp. 344 I n the dinner-table game,......

The Wife And Times Of Ceausescu

Florin Bican T he synchronous perception of history can be dismissed as a contradiction in terms, history being sequential par excel- lence. Not so by the inhabitants of......

Is The Bible A Woman's Joke?

J.Enoch Powell THE BOOK OF J translated from the Hebrew by David Rosenberg, T he German critics of the 19th century, and foremost and best known among them Julius Wellhausen......