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Though he enjoyed a spell as Auden and Isherwood’s ambassador in London, he resented Isherwood’s use of their Berlin years in ...

I dreamt of walking out of a landscape as if out of a painting – tipped from the picture by its tilting fields.

Wynne Godley was by turns a professional oboist, a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, an economist at the Treasury and a director of the Royal Opera House. Yet at thirty he found himself ‘living ...

Daniel Defoe , in his Tour thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724-26), was unimpressed by the prehistoric remains.

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One of the only ways for foreign correspondents to get into Mali now is to rely on the services of human smugglers, as I did a few weeks ago. A former journalist turned fixer told me there were ‘no ...