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Philip Ardagh on a memorable evening spent in the company of the late spy chief.
Tim Cooper pays tribute to fellow punk, Shane MacGowan.
How I would bend the ear of the late Terry Venables.
ASH Smyth remembers Conor O Brien: apostrophe-hater, architect, mountaineer, boat-builder, writer, IRA gun-runner and officer of the Royal Navy.
Martin Amis was someone I thought of as a kind of elder sibling, hero, avatar, even scapegoat.
On International Women’s Day, Boris Starling pays tribute to Fleur de Villiers, a remarkable family friend.
On Holocaust Memorial Day, Boris Starling recalls a much-revered (and feared) school teacher.