Tuesday, 26 November 2024

While it is constantly said that the world is getting smaller and there are fewer and fewer boundaries, never before have borders been more rigid than they are now

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The days when caravans could freely cross mountain passes and national borders are long gone. While it is constantly said that the world is ...
Monday, 25 November 2024

Like farming land, some patches of retail were just barren, would yield no crop

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Like farming land, some patches of retail were just barren, would yield no crop. Other patches, perhaps very close, were fertile ground. Nob...
Sunday, 24 November 2024

I came to feel that a man who had never ... tried to reach a compromise and never had to make a ruthless decision, could not have much knowledge of the day to day problems of politics

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At the time I knew nothing about politics and scarcely listened. Later on, when I had spent some time on the perimeter of public life, I cam...
Saturday, 23 November 2024

You must be ... the other Sir Kenneth Clark is a fearful shit; everybody says so

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I found myself among a group of members none of whom I remembered having seen, who naturally did not address a word to me. After about ten m...
Friday, 22 November 2024

Many people were richer, there can have been few who were idler

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I was born on July 13th, 1903, at 32 Gosvenor Square, a space now occupied by the American Embassy. My parents belonged to a section of soci...
Thursday, 21 November 2024

Wrote frequent letters to the Spectator which were never printed

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Otherwise Helen ate a good deal, continued to work on her melodramatic novel and, like most members of the bookish upper classes, wrote freq...
Wednesday, 20 November 2024

To describe Yak-rustling as ‘an overt act of hostility’ by a foreign power is plainly absurd

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The fact that the Viceroy of India was sending telegrams about the fate of frontier livestock to the Secretary of State (and hence the Cabin...