Summary
To Michael Wharton's funeral at Bradenham, Buckinghamshire. The church was packed. One of Michael's greatest comic skills in his Peter Simple column was the development of Homeric epithets for his characters ('go-ahead' , 'ironwatch-chained').
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The Spectator's Notes
The best thing would have been for all the British papers to have published all the cartoons of Mohammed that appeared in Jyllands-Posten. As well as collectively asserting the right of freedom of speech, this action would have given readers the chance to see what is actually being discussed. The context, satirised in many of the cart...
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