One of the first jobs I ever did for The Spectator was to find out if professional wrestlers fixed the outcome of their fights in advance. This was 1965. The editor who wanted to know was Ian Macleod, a future chancellor of the exchequer filling in time while his party was out of office by dabbling in journalism.
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