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One Hundred Years Ago

Arabi Pasha's letter to Mr Gladstone, received through Mr Wilfrid Blunt, has been published. It is hardly the kind of thing which a Mahommedan would have written, and has......

Fox-hunters, Unite

Raymond Carr T he campaign against fox-hunting may provide future historians with yet another example of the Jacobin effect. A sect of fanatics, replete with the self- righteous......