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Remembering Paul Johnson, 1928–2023

13 January 2023

3:42 AM

13 January 2023

3:42 AM

Paul Johnson, the author, journalist and historian, has died at the age of 94. He wrote more than 40 books, edited the New Statesman from 1965 to 1970, and wrote a column for The Spectator from 1981 to 2009. Below are some extracts from his Spectator columns, all of which are available on our archive.

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