Michael Moorcock, China Miéville, Hilary Spurling and AL Kennedy celebrate the life and work of Mervyn Peake, who was born 100 years ago next Saturday.
Editor of the Times James Harding talks to his predecessor William Rhys Mogg about the latter’s memoirs (£).
‘What did you think of Ted Heath? “Well, I liked him, but he could be appallingly difficult.” That said, “He was a serious and important figure to a degree which people don’t at the moment realise”. What about Harold Wilson, you didn’t seem to have much time for him? “He was frightfully dodgy at the way he handled difficult issues.” Rees-Mogg remembers a dinner in 1966 at which the Labour Prime Minister suggested that he would approve the sale of The Times to the owners of The Sunday Times if the paper sacked its then troublesome political correspondent.
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