“I was concerned when I wrote Allegro about men who are good at anything—writers, doctors, lawyers, business, and who are diverted from the field of their expertness by a kind of strange, informal conspiracy that goes on. People start
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“Sir Peter Tapsell: ‘You cannot ask the British Prime Minister to autograph a bottle of table wine. You really cannot.’ ‘It is English,’ I bleated. ‘Non-vintage?’ ‘Er … yes.’ ‘Good God, what is the party coming to?”
― Breaking the Code: Westminster Diaries
― Breaking the Code: Westminster Diaries
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