Category: Obituary

  • 29/07/2023
    No tracksuits here Mary Quant launched the clothes that made the Sixties swing from The Economist Not just because they…
  • 05/06/2023
    Martin Amis as the lurid chronicler of the UK The Economist These men dared to write vast superpower novels about…
  • 11/11/2020
    There was a touching obituary of Peter Sleight in the Lancet. Sleight was a Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at Oxford…
  • 08/11/2020
    From the obit of the 007 in the Economist. Sean Connery as James Bond simply is British manhood: good-mannered, patriotic,…
  • 17/10/2020
    On that day in 1981 when he first sat at the pinnacle of British journalism, the editor’s desk at the…