With this kind of book, some of the greatest thanks must go to people who cannot be named. They know who they are, and I hope they know I am deeply grateful for their help.
Of those who can be named, I would particularly like to thank the following, in more or less alphabetic order: Mary Abinger, Chris Ball and Mark Barnes at News UK, Brian Basham, Judi Bevan and John Jay, George Bingham, Matthew Engel, Steve Frankham, Maisie Glazebrook and Susan Roccelli at Private Eye, Rupert Hambro, Henry Hector, David Hellier at Bloomberg, Brian Hill, Richard Hyman, Madeleine Legwinski, Kiki Loizou, John Lovering, Sir Laurie Magnus, George Malde, Andrew Mitchell at the Sunday Times, Eric Musgrave, Dominic Prince, John Ralfe, Toni Rauch, John Richards, Lord Rose, Melissa Tarrant, George Vallossian, and Dick and Virginia Withers.