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...The reviewer is an FT contributing editor Independence or Union: Scotland’s Past and Scotland’s Present, by Tom Devine, Allen Lane (RRP£20)...
...Kennedy had wanted to curtail Britain’s operational independence....
...… All the Rage, by AL Kennedy, Jonathan Cape, RRP£16.99/ New Harvest, RRP$24 Billed as a set of love stories, Kennedy’s sparely written collection is more a study of the alienation, dismay and misery...
...When the UK’s chief securities enforcer Margaret Cole announced last month that she would become general counsel of PwC, the professional services firm, she became one of the highest profile examples of...
...of Labour party rule that preceded Margaret Thatcher’s 1979 election victory....
...Wilful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril, by Margaret Heffernan, Simon & Schuster, RRP£12.99 Heffernan presents a readable analysis of the way powerful and intelligent people deliberately...
...Kennedy Jonathan Cape £16.99, 279 pages FT bookshop price: £13.59 Kennedy takes on a second world war RAF airman. The protagonist is engaging, but it’s the author’s style that mesmerises....
...In this respect, Margaret Thatcher, almost uniquely among women, says Mansfield, was ”manly”: he cites with admiration her warning to George Bush Sr. on the eve of the first Gulf war: ”Don’t go wobbly on...
...Kennedy Jonathan Cape £16.99, 288 pages FT bookshop price: £13.59 The darkly funny tale of Alfred Day, a young RAF gunner who finds purpose, a sense of identity and peer camaraderie when fighting the...
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