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Tabula Rasa

At eighty, he set himself the task of repainting his rooms. He worked slowly, wheezing up and down the folding steps. He chose the blue of his old cricket club tie; the......

The Dotty Earl Wins Through

Bevis Hillier LORD LONGFORD: A LIFE by Peter Stanford Heinemann, £20, pp. 502 P eter Stanford can be forgiven for not having read what Michael McNay wrote about Lord Longford in......