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Night Of The Long Quills

Robert Rhodes James recalls how a famous political memoir was rudely interrupted by its author's dismissal THE RECENT death of Sylvia, Lady De La Warr, also the widow of Lord......

An Englishman's

HOME IS HIS MUD HUT Ross Clark discovers that Mrs Desiree Ntolo is following an old British tradition IT IS NOT only the opponents of petty- minded bureaucracy who are ranged......

One Hundred Years Ago

THE FRENCH and Germans have got another little quarrel on hand. The Berliners are anxious, as their capital is now so important, to have a grand International Exhibition in......