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“... Evelyn Waugh admired. He borrowed from him too. In this highly fascinating and erudite biography Dido Davies notes some of the echoes of Jazz and Jasper in Vile Bodies. Gerhardie’s Lord Ottercove, based on the ubiquitous literary model of Beaverbrook, shouts ‘Faster! Faster!’ like Agatha Runcible. Beaverbrook seems to have genuinely and deeply ...”

“... million.Failure is no barrier to advancement in Britain’s privatised public life. In 2017, Dido Harding, a Conservative peer, was made the chair of NHS Improvement, despite having presided over the loss of the financial and personal details of 150,000 customers when she was chief executive of TalkTalk. In May, she was put in charge of NHS Test and ...”