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The Victoria and Albert and the British Museum have lent 32 richly decorated items to descendants of the original owners in Ghana.

This evocative account of the author’s mother and aunt – identical twin sisters who stole the hearts of London’s 1930s intelligentsia – captures their closeness and lust for life

The dazzlingly beautiful identical twins Mamaine and Celia Paget were born in 1916 and brought up in rural Suffolk – not the greatest springboard, you would think, for lives at the intellectual heart of the mid-20th century. Yet the list of their friends reads like a roll call of literary notables: Dick Wyndham, Peter Quennell,

The vaunted polemicist Christopher Hitchens left behind not only many friends and admirers (and antagonists), but numerous open questions, too.

Was the loose-knit band of rebels always destined to go fringe?

We need to rethink how we fight the ascendant cultural left, which does not consider truth an arbiter.