It was the claim of one of my past editors – Jenny Naipaul – during my 11 years of writing for The Spectator in London that the first few paragraphs of my weekly piece hardly ever provided the slightest clue as to its forthcoming content. In doing so I later came to realise that I consistently broke one of the cardinal rules laid down today on degree courses in journalism.
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