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My role in saving The Spectator

<em>Forty years ago, Henry Keswick offered me a job for which I seemed wholly unprepared. Here's why I took it</em>

1 August 2015

9:00 AM

1 August 2015

9:00 AM

I was wondering what to write about this week when I suddenly realised that exactly 40 years ago this Saturday I became editor of this magazine. Despite eventually getting the sack, I hung onto the job for nine years, from 1975 to 1984, which is still the longest that anyone has had it since Wilson Harris ended his 21-year tenure in 1953.

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