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...He quotes Walter Bagehot and impersonates Enoch Powell; he has a plaster statue of Clement Attlee in a storeroom....
...Gropius’s elegant house for Benn Levy and Constance Cummings in Chelsea, and the gentler Modernism of Impington Village College in Cambridgeshire....
...The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order, by Benn Steil, Princeton, RRP£19.95/$29.95 Steil’s book is an object lesson in how to make economic...
...Meanwhile, environment minister Hilary Benn has launched an assault on sell-by dates which are completely irrelevant to customers and should be ignored....
...God and Gold: Britain, America and the Making of the Modern World By Walter Russell Mead Atlantic £25, 320 pages FT bookshop price: £20 Walter Russell Mead adds religion to the mix of Anglo-Saxon virtues...
...It was the world not of scientific socialism but of Walter Mitty. In the event, the rate of economic growth during the Wilson years was lower than it had been under the much-derided Conservatives....
...More Time for Politics: Diaries, 2001-2007 By Tony Benn Hutchinson £20, 352 pages FT bookshop price: £16 More time for politics was what Tony Benn wanted when he gave up his parliamentary seat, and this...
...Walter Lukken is a futures industry regulator....
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