Brief letters: Gary Younge | Boris Johnson | Classical music | Japanese honesty | Commons Speaker
Well done, Gary Younge, on your appointment as professor . You have a rare talent that makes a reader feel present. I recall a May 2014 article recounting your two meetings with the late Maya Angelou which does it in spades: “As her car pulled away after dropping me off at the hotel, she put her head out of the window, waved, and shouted like a teenage girl: ‘That’s swanky!’ She was 74 and high on life.
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