Is Boris Johnson a fan of Harry Perry Robinson? If he isn’t, he really ought to be. Reading this absorbing biography, I was struck by how much they have in common — especially in their early lives. Both men went to public school, then on to Oxford, then into journalism, where they proved incapable of writing a dull sentence.
William Cook
Never a dull sentence: the journalism of Harry Perry Robinson
Whether covering the Great War or the Tutankhamun expedition, the star Times reporter always electrified his readers, says Joseph McAleer

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