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Sir Allen Lane

A flair for success AGATHA CHRISTIE Sir Allen Lane, founder of Penguin Books and one of the most influential of publishers, died on 7 July aged sixty-seven. My friendship with......

Spectator's Notebook

PETER GOLDMAN In one important respect Mr Wilson did the country a bad turn by losing the election. If things had gone the other way, political commentators of the more......