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...Bristol, a crowd pulled down a statue of 17th century slave trader Edward Colston earlier this month, while an Oxford university college on Wednesday said it wanted to take down a statue of colonialist Cecil...
...This week, the governing body of Oxford university’s Oriel College recommended the removal of a statue of Victorian imperialist Cecil Rhodes, that had been the target of protests....
...Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, the London Magazine editor Alan Ross (Commander Ross of The Man with the Golden Gun), Stephen Spender, Cecil Beaton and Anthony Eden all stayed there....
...Yet Le Carré works more in the pessimistic tradition of Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene. As good and vital as he is, he’s no Orwell or Wells....
...I think of Waugh and Capote, Graham Greene and Cecil Beaton and others who have lost their sense of time to this very spot over the decades – pristine, natural Jamaica, the patina of colonial 1950s glamour...
...Heartbreaking, humorous and filled with wondrously precise prose, the novel centres on Cecil Valance, a mediocre poet killed in the first world war....
...By the time Ronnie’s was taken over by impresario Sally Greene in 2005, it was decidedly frayed at the edges....
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