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Why does no one dress for dinner at Claridge’s any more?

22 April 2023

10:02 PM

22 April 2023

10:02 PM

Barry Humphries has died at the age of 89. This was his last diary for The Spectator in our 2022 Christmas issue.

F.Scott Fitzgerald declared in an excellent late story that ‘the second half of life is a long process of getting rid of things’. It is certainly what I am striving to do.

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