5 DECEMBER 1987, page 46

Downing Street Market

John Grigg CORRUPTION IN BRITISH POLITICS, 1895-1930 by G. R. Searle Clarendon Press, Oxford, £19.50 W e tend to pride ourselves on the relative purity of our public life, and......

A Taste For Death

Stephen Spender THE FABER BOOK OF REPORTAGE edited by John Carey Faber, £14.95 I f there were at literary parties a game called 'Anthologies' where the participants were asked......