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I AM relieved to find City and Suburban still attached to the parent Spectator by its umbilical staple. Anywhere else it would now be a separate flop-out Financial Sec- tion. The papers are coming apart. The FT and Guardian have split into two, along different lines (the Guardian seems to have lost its front page, while the FT has two but is not sure what to put on them). This Saturday the Telegraph and Independent will spit into three, and the Times will divide like a jellyfish on a fertility drug. It was all foreseen 181 years ago by the universal mind of Thomas Jefferson. To a friend who wrote to ask him how a newspaper should be conducted, he re- plied, from the White House: 'Perhaps an editor might begin his reformation in some such way as this. Divide his paper into four chapters, heading the first, Truth, second, Probabilities, third, Possibilities, fourth, Lies.' The first section, Jefferson added, would be very short.
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