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Getting the sack was a shock but not a surprise

20 October 2018

9:00 AM

20 October 2018

9:00 AM

It was a shock but not really a surprise. I came back from holiday at the beginning of August to find an item in the UK Press Gazette saying that Decca Aitkenhead had just been appointed chief interviewer at the Sunday Times, and an email from the Sunday Times magazine editor, Eleanor Mills, saying we needed to meet.

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