‘Write about what you like’
Jan 05, 2022
4 minutes
Huon Mallalieu
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WHEN would you suppose that the following words were written? ‘Daily papers in those days were, of course, not the miserable news-sheets they are today… We no longer take our newspapers seriously. We do not read the speeches of our politicians because we do not trust them.’ They come in Percy Colson’s , published in 1950, and he sighed for the late 19th century when London salerooms were frequented by Gladstone, Disraeli and all Society, and people who would never consider buying followed the press reports of auctions like sporting events. Indeed, ‘a big sale at Christie’s was given greater importance than a football league match
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