
Jonathan Meades: Closing Time for the Firm
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Tina Brown's New York Review
The volume of the firm's special pleading and entitled clamour is in inverse proportion to its usefulness. Tina brown left england for new york nearly forty years ago in 19 83, more than decayed before diana's death. She doesn't underestimate the extent to which caustic britain has changed in her absence. The prince's trust accepts gifts from philanthropists desirous of a gong - no matter that the philanthropist gopher may make threatening phone calls to formar female m ps. Sir jimmy saville, knighted for services to necrophilia, ingratiated himself with prince charles by preparing a guide on how the firm should react
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