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It's The Rich Wot Gets The Blame

Jonathan Clark THE LONDON HANGED: CRIME AND SOCIETY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY by Peter Linebaugh Allen Lane, £25, pp. 484 S ince the mid 1970s, we have lived in 'a historical......

A Wronged Man • Need Not Be A Good Man

Paul Foot SMEAR! WILSON AND THE SECRET STATE by Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay Fourth Estate, £20, pp.390 A nyone who wants to know how the British secret service works owes a......