Patrick West

Michael Palin isn’t a ‘national treasure’

He’s one of the finest writers of our time

  • From Spectator Life

It’s a well-known fact that Michael Palin is a ‘national treasure’. Or so you are told just about every single time the travel presenter and writer appears on television or features in a newspaper interview. So it was with grim inevitably that a few days before the first instalment of his latest expedition, Michael

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