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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Private Eye
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Satirical magazine, founded in 1961, which has benefited from a network of journalists eager to release facts or rumours too dangerous for their own mainstream papers. Its merit has been in breaking stories which politicians and financiers would rather suppress; it has been less admirable in its cavalier way with people's private lives. City Slicker has been the vehicle for financial scandal; Lord Gnome is the magazine's very own press baron (loosely linked with Peter Cook, who was a major investor in the project), and its most sustained flight of brilliance has been Dear Bill – indiscreet letters of everyday life at No. 10, supposedly written by Denis Thatcher, husband of Margaret, to a fellow drinker.
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