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Jonathan Meades: Closing Time for the Firm

The LRB Podcast

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The Duff Stud Book

The duff stud book that the queen consulted might as well have addressed selection through phrenology. Every one seems willing to reveal the family secrets to brown. Bullying, cruel sackings, evictions from grace and favor houses,. cousins buried in psychiatric hospitals, tupperware at dawn. Young princes with a nocturnal dependency on teddy bears. The parker bowls family, providers of sexual services to the crown. These base people without a single criminal conviction between them, are involved, as brown says, in a race to the bottom. They make debauches in piety as sinners do in wine. As vanborough had it, they have too much zeal to have any charity

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