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117 shares Robert Philpot is a writer and journalist. He is the former editor of Progress magazine and author of “Margaret Thatcher: The Honorary Jew.” An undated photo of British newspaper magnate Robert Maxwell. (AP Photo) The Dancing Hare, previously known as the Lady Ghislaine, in January 2020. (Wikimedia commons/ CC-BY-SA-4.0/ Andrewrutherford) A view of Headington Hill Hall. (Wikimedia Commons/ CC-BY-1.0/Donegalscott) Immediately after resigning as Industry Minister, then-MK Ari...

How Robert Maxwell became the crook of the century 5/5 MP, tycoon and fraudster Robert Maxwell, pictured in 1969, UK Credit: Hulton Archive It’s quite rare for a biography to be described as “jaw-dropping”, but this one truly is – Robert Maxwell is the most compelling, mysterious, monstrous character since Anthony Trollope’s Melmotte. The British Establishment always regarded him with deep suspicion and called him “the Bouncing Czech”, but by the end of his life he was being wooed...

Fall by John Preston review – the truth about Robert Maxwell Ian Jack © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Steve Wood/REX/Shutterstock Soon after he took over the New York Daily News – his last and most foolish purchase – Robert Maxwell asked the tabloid’s publisher, Jim Hoge, if he could do him a favour: “Would you mind,” Maxwell asked, “if I stood here with the door open and shouted at you for a while?” Hoge had known worse requests; the paper had recently...