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Fostering A Nanny State

Jonathan Mirsky FROM THIRD WORLD TO FIRST: THE SINGAPORE STORY, 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew HarperCollins, £25, pp. 729 L ee Kuan Yew, prime minister of Sin- gapore from 1959 to......

Pressing On Regardless

Robert Harris A SHORT WALK DOWN FLEET STREET by Alan Watkins Duckworth, f18, pp. 277 F or longer than most of us care to remember — for longer, actually, than some of us can......