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Spectator letters: PPE, Biblical bishops and Pamela Hansford Johnson

4 October 2014

9:00 AM

4 October 2014

9:00 AM

Degrees of ability

Sir: Nick Cohen has written an amusing piece on PPE (‘Crash course’, 27 September), marred by lazy journalism. I never said that Cameron was ‘my ablest pupil’, an impossible judgment to make. What I said was that he was ‘one of my ablest pupils’. He was also, incidentally, one of the nicest.

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