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“She was a narcissist who described herself beautifully.” The description of the mid 20th-century novelist Jean Rhys doesn’t apply to the author who wrote it, even if, in style and sentiment, it epitomises the publication in which it appeared – sly, aphoristic and unapologetically imperious. Mary-Kay Wilmers published her first piece for the London Review of Books in 1981, two years after joining the “paper” as an editor and 11 years before she became the editor-in-chief. (She is also the owner.) Since then, the LRB, which has a circulation of around 80,000 according to the Au...

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by Binoy Kampmark / January 28th, 2021 Not exactly Thermopylae.  Not even close.  The hundred thousand who have now been taken by COVID-19 in Britain were not determined warriors holding up the forces of a mighty empire to save their land.  They were the innocent victims of infection, mismanagement and miscalculation.  Central to the policy which led to such losses was a practised bumbling which has become the ne plus ultra of Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Conservative government. In recording 100,000 deaths from COVID-19, Britain became the fifth country, and of those the smallest...

As Britain passes 100,000 COVID deaths, Boris Johnson is in a crisis of his own making ThuThursday 28 updated FriFriday 29 JanJanuary 2021 at 12:43am The repeated and concerted political miscalculations by Boris Johnson and his cabinet that have driven the country's record coronavirus toll. ( Print text only Cancel Two slippery and elusive phantoms seem to be escaping UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Conservative government. The first is the fiendishly viral and deadly COVID-19 pandemic. The number of COVID-related deaths in the UK has passed 100,000, making it the first nation in Eu...

Save Share London | My God! Can Euan Blair really be worth £73 million ($129 million)? That's even more than his moneybags dad, Tony, who's got a mere £60 million to his name. Master Blair has made the money out of his apprenticeship company, Multiverse, which promotes an alternative to the university system his father championed as prime minister. How time flies. Surely it was only yesterday that little Euan made headlines after being found "drunk and incapable" in Leicester Square after celebrating the end of his GCSEs? That was in 2000, when Euan was 16. He's now 37 and the CEO of a ...