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Kippers and Champagne

Daniel Cohen: Barclay and Barclay, 3 April 2025

You May Never See Us Again: The Barclay Dynasty – A Story of Survival, Secrecy and Succession 
by Jane Martinson.
Penguin, 336 pp., £10.99, October 2024, 978 1 4059 5890 5
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... met David Cameron four times in 2010 alone. A few years later, David told the journalist Tim Walker that Cameron kept calling and was ‘desperately keen to get some time alone with him’.Martinson is a former media editor of the Guardian, yet she devotes comparatively little space to the workings of the Telegraph under the Barclays. This owes something ...

Higher Ordinariness

Jonathan Meades: Poor Surrey, 23 May 2024

Interwar: British Architecture 1919-39 
by Gavin Stamp.
Profile, 568 pp., £40, March, 978 1 80081 739 5
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The Buildings of England: Surrey 
by Charles O’Brien, Ian Nairn and Bridget Cherry.
Yale, 854 pp., £60, November 2022, 978 0 300 23478 7
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... he discovered, for instance, the fine perspectivist and occasional architect Raymond Myerscough Walker living in a vagabond caravan in a wood near Chichester, his archive stored in his car, a near sunken Rover. Such persons are much more than also-rans. They are the substance of a parallel history of Stamp’s creation that abjures inflated ...

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