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...I arrive at Brideshead, the stately home of Evelyn Waugh’s 1945 novel, with its wide staircases, marble pillars and unlimited wine cellar....
...As early as 1928, Evelyn Waugh’s satirical novel Decline and Fall featured an intolerably stuffy politician who is ennobled as Viscount Metroland....
...Even Mr Murdoch’s attempt to dictate to Mr Brown policy on Afghanistan is reminiscent of Evelyn Waugh’s satire Scoop, in which Lord Copper pronounces: “A few sharp victories, some conspicuous acts of personal...
...Initially, Burne-Jones adored the MacDonalds: poor, devout, close-knit, with a crowd of lively, loyal, very marriageable daughters – Georgiana’s nephews would include Rudyard Kipling and Stanley Baldwin....
...He had an educated eye, rather than a radical one – his father was the portrait painter Sir Oswald Birley, whose sitters included the prime ministers Churchill, Baldwin and Attlee – and the look he achieved...
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