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‘Perhaps every generation gets the Adam Smith it is looking for…’

‘At the infamous Chequers meeting on Germany in 1990, Trevor-Roper faced Mrs Thatcher down and tore her arguments to pieces.’

A whole host of Greenes

Much of high finance is tacky, grubby and dishonest. Niall Ferguson’s writing on the subject would improve if he approached it with the cynicism it deserves…

‘William Golding, to other writers, is a model of the late starter.’

‘Maybe it’s the ganja – well, definitely it’s the ganja…’

Who the Dickens?!

‘Ulysses and The Waste Land were instant classics, yet The Cantos have remained an outlier…’

Pearl Buck, Chinese writer

‘Hank Paulson sounds tough. But on the substance that matters he was weak’

‘Most Hollywood directors don’t survive one flop, let alone twenty-five. But Altman the gambler, the schemer, kept finding ways to make films…’

‘An initiation in infinitude was the gift Dickinson offered to the few she admitted to intimacy…’

Irresistable fascination of the ‘Casanova of causes’