My small thanks to Andreas Whittam Smith
The founding editor of The Independent has died aged 88
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My hero Tom Stoppard
A man with more charm than anyone I have ever met
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Rachel Cooke’s feminism and friendship
Remembering my friend, the New Statesman’s brilliant TV critic
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Re-reading the utterly original Rachel Cooke
The writer, who was the New Statesman’s TV reviewer for nearly two decades, has died aged 56
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Tony Harrison saw Britain’s “dreadful schism”
The poet, who has died at 88, was the people’s poet that too few people knew about.
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Lewis Lapham was the last of the patrician liberals
He embodied a sensibility now lost to liberal pieties
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Remembering the war correspondent Kim Sengupta
The veteran reporter was a man of great courage, resilience and considerable charm.
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