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The Blessed Arnold

Jonathan Sumption LORD GOODMAN by Brian Brivati Richard Cohen Books, £20, pp. 304 T his account of postwar England's most famous fixer was obviously intended to be a hatchet......

A Patrician's View From The High Moral Ground

Rupert Christiansen IN HOUSE: COVENT GARDEN by John Tooley Faber, £25, pp. 318 T hroughout the first 200 pages of this guarded and dignified volume of memoirs, Sir John Tooley......