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Long life

Lottery winners are strikingly unimaginative about spending money

They dream of great wealth and then, when they have it, can’t think of anything interesting or life-enhancing to spend do with it

22 November 2014

9:00 AM

22 November 2014

9:00 AM

I thought that this week I might write about memory loss, but couldn’t remember if I’d written about it last week. Then I remembered that I had written about it, not in The Spectator but in the current issue of the Oldie magazine of which, if I remember correctly, I am the editor.

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