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Whatever happened to the literary heroes? `They are not even in school book sales any more, which is where unwanted books go when really unwanted
2001
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ONE OF my best friends at school was a boy called Alex Cockburn, who was the son of Claud Cockburn, the well-known left-wing journalist. What a Communist like Claud was doing sending his son to a remote boarding school in Scotland is something I shall never know. In fact, as Claud always had tremendous trouble paying the fees, I am not sure he knew either, but I was very politically unaware in those days, even more than I am now, and it never occurred to me to wonder why someone so dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism should send his sons to such a capitalist institution. All I knew was that Alex came from a rather different background from mine. Respectability was in my genes, whereas...
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Independent Digital News & Media
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