Iain McLean (Oxford): The 1909 budget and the destruction of the unwritten British Constitution. From Standpoint, Geoffrey Robertson on why we need a British Bill of Rights; how European are the British? Piers Paul Read and David Heathcoat-Amory debate; and Nick Cohen on a reader's guide to Thatcherism. If Britain's got talent, why are we being run by foreigners? Big Bother: How a million surveillance cameras in London are proving George Orwell wrong. A review of The Best of Punch Cartoons: 2000 Humor Classics. From TLS, a review essay on Georgian London. A look at the unlikely origin of fish and chips. From Red Pepper, a review of Memoirs of a Radical Lawyer by Michael Mansfield (and an interview). Does British foreign secretary David Miliband, the child of Holocaust survivors and New Labour wonk, have the “

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