Heart of Darkness
Christopher Hitchens, 28 June 1990
Not Many Dead: Journal of a Year in Fleet Street
by Nicholas Garland.
Hutchinson, 299 pp., £16.95, April 1990,0 09 174449 0 Show More
by Nicholas Garland.
Hutchinson, 299 pp., £16.95, April 1990,
A Slight Case of Libel: Meacher v. Trelford and Others
by Alan Watkins.
Duckworth, 241 pp., £14.95, June 1990,0 7156 2334 6 Show More
by Alan Watkins.
Duckworth, 241 pp., £14.95, June 1990,
“... said Bernard. ‘I heard that at the board meeting where Max’s appointment was being discussed Lord H. strongly opposed the choice. After a while someone handed him a bit of paper which he read and fell silent. I think I know what was written on that paper.’ He scrawled something on a pad, tore off the page and handed it to me. On it he’d written ‘80 ... ”