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Wallace Arnold: Pity the hard-pressed Snuff Community

19 December 2020

9:00 AM

19 December 2020

9:00 AM

Could it really be 40 years since one was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature? Borne up the stairs on the shoulders of John Julius Norwich and Sir Roy Strong, I was inducted by Lady Antonia Fraser and the late Paddy Leigh Fermor, resplendent in their ceremonial robes.

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Wallace Arnold’s ‘Afore Ye Go’ column ran in The Spectator from 1988 to 1991. He returned to speak to his close friend, Craig Brown.

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