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Pleasures Of The Fleeting Year

Nicholas Ridley THE SPECTATOR ANNUAL edited by Dominic Lawson HarperCollins, 177.50, pp. 262 M ost people are hooked on periodi- cals. They feel deprived, even out of touch, if......

Concerning Death, God And Money

Peter Hebblethwaite THE MONEY CHANGERS by Charles Raw Narvik £20, pp. 518 R oberto Calvi, the man who made the Banco Ambrosiano an international bank, was founding swinging from......

A View From The Foreign Office

John Grigg MORE BY ACCIDENT by Denis Greenhill Wilton 65, available from Daunt Books, Hatchards, Heywood Hill and John Sandoe, 116.95, pp. 197 T he memoirs of Whitehall......