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Compliments For Fishing

David Profumo IZAAK WALTON: SELECTED WRITINGS edited by Jessica Martin Carcanet, f9.95, pp. 204 W hen he died in his 90th year Walton was known as the author of what we might......

Some Are More Equal Than Others

Dot Wordsworth LANGUAGE IS POWER: THE STORY OF STANDARD ENGLISH AND ITS ENEMIES by John Honey Faber, £8.99, pp. 298 A couple of years ago Sir Ron Dearing, the man in charge of......