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FOUND: 2 - What They Never Told You

Ninety years on, what can we learn from reading Evelyn Waugh's troubling satire Black Mischief?

Ninety years ago, in October 1932, the English satirist Evelyn Waugh published his third novel Black Mischief. He’d had a hit two years prior with Vile Bodies, a novel that made famous (even as it mocked) the slang and habits of the aristocratic Bright Young Things and propelled Waugh to…

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Letters: we desperately need more hospital beds

Increasing capacity would restore patient confidence, reduce waiting lists and improve staff morale

The Guardian - UK

Bellamy’s: The Queen’s favourite restaurant, plus nibbles and tipples for the Jubilee

Named after the gentlemen’s club in Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour books, its doors opened in 2004.

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The book that changed me: falling for Eve Babitz's Sex and Rage

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The private diaries of Evelyn Waugh, 1973

What would the famously acerbic novelist reveal? By Chris Hall

The Guardian - UK

Partygate Revisited: why Boris Johnson’s Downing Street is starting to sound like an Evelyn Waugh novel

When allegations arose some years ago that former prime minister David Cameron had behaved obscenely with a pig’s head during a Bullingdon Club event while at the University of Oxford, he distanced himself from the controversial group, saying:

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