Index
Abbey, Edward 326
Acheson, Dean 106
Adams, Clover 234
Adams, Henry 106
Adams, Joey 309
Adams, John Quincy 192
Adenauer, Konrad 19
Adonis, Andrew, Lord 171
Aesop 207
Agee, James 301
Agnelli, Giovanni 320
Agnew, Spiro T. 87
Aitken, Jonathan 160
Alcieri, Tom 108
Alcott, Louisa May 355
Allen, Fred 109, 220, 255, 278
Allen, Woody 9, 11, 24, 39, 113, 309, 340, 343, 380
Ambler, Eric 110
Ambrose, Stephen 356
Amery, Leo 134
Anderson, Clive 164
Andrews, Julie 291
Angelou, Maya 387
Anne, Princess 99
Appleby, Humphrey, Sir 111
Archer, William 307
Arendt, Hannah 118
Aristophanes 104
Aristotle 348
Armstrong, William 112
Arnold, Matthew 73, 87, 91, 233
Asquith, Cyril 271
Asquith, Margot 133, 138, 210, 292, 373
Astor, Nancy 32, 104, 355, 379
Atkinson, Brooks 292
Atkinson, Rowan 33
Bacon, Francis 271
Baddiel, David 406
Baedeker 77
Bagehot, Walter 47, 93, 94, 128, 227
Bailey, Bill 167
Balabin, Victor de 250
Baldwin, Stanley 96, 132, 134, 221
Balfour, Arthur James 116, 136, 222
Balzac, Honoré de 249
Bankhead, Tallulah 291, 301, 303, 357
Banks, Tony 164
Baraka, Imamu Amiri 79
Barber, Lynn 339
Baring, Maurice 319
Barkley, Charles 327
Baroja, Pío 109
Barr, Roseanne 370
Barrymore, John 300
Bauer, Peter 319
Bayley, Stephen 267
Beard, Charles 64
Beaton, Cecil 294
Beckman, Martha 330
Beecher, Henry Ward 19
Beerbohm, Max 167, 261, 307, 354, 416
Beethoven, Ludwig van 273, 274
Bell, Alan 264
Benedict XVI, Pope 38
Benjamin, Judah 83
Benn, Hilary 131
Benn, Tony 169
Bennett, James Gordon 253, 284
Bentley, Eric 317
Beresford, Charles 95
Berlin, Irving 114
Berlioz, Hector 275
Berlusconi, Silvio 204
Bermant, Chaim 83
Bernard Shaw, George 14, 34, 44, 56, 88, 95, 115, 211, 220, 228, 275, 278, 90, 292, 305, 306, 363, 374
Bernstein, Al 319
Betjeman, John 71
Betts, Hannah 73
Bevan, Aneurin 105, 117, 119, 135, 138, 139, 140, 175
Bickerstaffe, Rodney 169
Bierce, Ambrose 207
Biffen, John 174
Bigot de Cornuel, Anne-Marie 370
Birch, Nigel 139
Bird, John 33
Birkenhead, Frederick, Lord 110
Birkett, Norman 315
Bismarck, Otto von 51
Black, Conrad 183
Blackwell, Simon 21
Blunt, James 284
Bogart, Humphrey 346
Bonaparte, Napoléon 48, 49, 50, 212, 349
Boren, James H. 112
Borge, Victor 382
Borges, Jorge Luis 17, 211, 335
Boswell, James 348
Botton, Alain de 231
Bowen, Elizabeth 245
Bradshaw, Peter 301
Brahms, Johannes 275
Brand, Jo 371
Brando, Marlon 294
Brandreth, Gyles 294
Brann, William Cowper 186
Branson, Richard 320
Brecht, Bertolt 268
Bremner, Rory 168
Breslin, Jimmy 219
Broderick, Helen 353
Brogan, Colm 136
Brogan, Jimmy 71
Brooker, Charlie 411
Brooks, Mel 17
Brooks, Rebekah 217
Brougham, Henry, Lord 316
Brown, Craig 344
Brown, Dan 230
Brown, Rita Mae 361
Browne, Coral 289
Bruce, Lenny 30
Brummell, George ‘Beau’ 95
Bruno, Frank 328
Bryson, Bill 54
Buckley, William F. 281
Bulmer-Thomas, Ivor 74
Burns, Robert 232
Burroughs, John 405
Burton, Richard 289
Bush, Barbara 21
Bushell, John 61
Butler, Joseph, Bishop 35
Butler, Samuel 19, 41, 370, 373
Butz, Earl 80
Byron, George Gordon, Lord 13, 126, 127, 257, 260, 261, 375
Caan, James 374
Cable, Vince 172
Caesar, Julius 44
Caine, Michael 294
Caligula 107
Calwell, Arthur 120
Câmara, Hélder 120
Cameron, David 165, 166, 172, 176
Campbell, Alastair 165, 174, 175, 232, 410
Capone, Al 65
Carlin, George 10
Carlyle, Thomas 10
Caron de Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin 12
Carr, Simon 312
Carrington, Peter, Lord 159
Carter, Lillian 196
Caruso, Enrico 276
Cary, Joyce 358
Catherine the Great 117
Catullus 391
Cecil, Jonathan 15
Chadwick, Henry 35
Chagall, Marc 266
Chamfort, Nicolas 362
Chancellor, Alexander 110
Chanel, Coco 338
Channon, Henry 241
Charles II, King 94
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 33, 57
Charles, Lord Darling 321
Charles, Prince of Wales 270
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Lord 21, 257
Chesterton, G.K. 12, 43, 53, 216, 255, 307, 360
Chetwode, Hester, Lady 88
Chirac, Jacques 50
Christie, Bridget 179
Churchill, Randolph, Lord 127
Churchill, Winston 51, 67, 107, 132, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 179, 210, 214, 223, 270, 292
Cicero, Marcus Tullius 10, 44, 227
Cioran, Emil 19
Clare, Jason 183
Clark, Alan 367
Clarke, Arthur C. 222
Clarke, Charles 170
Clarke, Ken 412
Cleaver, Eldridge 367
Clinton, Bill 197
Clinton, Hillary Rodham 199
Close, Chuck 271
Clough, Brian 332
Cohen, Nick 114
Colby, Frank More 101
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 49, 93, 248
Coles, Richard 387
Collins, Philip 412
Compton-Burnett, I 383
Conkling, Roscoe 70
Connolly, Cyril 13, 216, 228, 231, 237, 369
Connor, William 368
Conrad, Joseph 16
Constable, John 260
Cooper, Tommy 345
Copland, Aaron 276
Cordes, Paul 29
Coslet, Bruce 327
Coward, Noël 76, 77, 137, 239, 254, 296, 300, 303
Cowper Powys, John 383
Cox, Kenyon 271
Cripps, Stafford, Sir 135
Crosby, Bing 279
Crosley, Sloane 8
Crouch, Peter 333
Cryer, Barry 388
Cullinan, Daryll 325
Cummings, E. E.
Curzon, George Nathaniel, Lord 89, 132, 220
d’Ancona, Matthew 42
Dabi’Ibn al-harith al-Burjumi 381
Dalrymple, Theodore 338
Dante 111
Darwin, Charles 304
Davies, Gareth 331
Davis, Sammy Jr 82
Davy, Humphrey 266
Dawkins, Richard 27
Day, Kevin 89
de Béthune, Maximilien, Duc de Sully 60
de Gaulle, Charles 50, 59, 104
de la Mare, Arthur, Sir 66
de la Rochefoucauld, Duc 19
de la Rochefoucauld, François 11
de Montaigne, Michel 25, 308, 370, 374
de Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron 24, 36
de Pompadour, Madame 65
de Rozmital, Leo 59
De Sica, Vittorio 41
Debussy, Claude 274
Dee, Jack 32
Denning, Alfred, Lord 178
Depew, Chauncey 185
Depp, Johnny 181
Desmond, Paul 359
Di’bil 392
Diana, Princess of Wales 99
Díaz, Porfirio 69
Dickinson, Emily Jane 297
Didion, Joan 78
Diller, Phyllis 75
Dirac, Paul 258
Disbrowe, Colonel 93
Disney, Walt 363
Disraeli, Benjamin 27, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 178, 227, 378
Dix, Dom Gregory 31
Djilas, Milovan 118
Dodd, Ken 382
Dole, Bob 193
Dorries, Nadine 408
Douglas, Michael 337
Douglas Home, Alec, Sir 157, 168, 325
Dowd, Maureen 198
Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir 76
Drabble, Margaret 46
Drew, Elizabeth 77
Dreyfuss, Randy 289
Duncan Smith, Iain 410
Durocher, Leo 327
Dyer, Geoff 295
Dykstra, Clarence, Mrs 191
Eagleton, Terry 27
Easter, Nick 331
Eccles, John Dawson, Lord 48
Edwards, Bob 73
Eisenhower, Dwight D 193
Eliot, George 11, 12, 105, 236, 359
Eliot, T.S. 221, 235, 297, 304
Ellenborough, Lord 314
Emerson, Ralph Waldo 20, 220, 260, 262
Emin, Tracey 71
Enlai, Zhou 121
Ephron, Nora 224, 310, 344, 360, 389
Epstein, Jacob 271
Ertz, Susan 13
Evans, Edith 237
Everett, Rupert 340
Fadiman, Clifton 343
Fairbairn, Nicholas 201
Farrar, John 228
Faulkland, Lucius Cary, Lord 178
Ferguson, Alex 334
Ferguson, Euan 201
Feuchtwanger, Leon 82
Fey, Tina 297
Fifield, A.J. 246
Finkelstein, Daniel 45
Fischer, Martin H. 328
Fisher, Carrie 337
Fitzalan, Amanda Malvina 231
Flaubert, Gustave 364
Flynn, Paul 168
Foot, Michael 131
Foote, Samuel 315
Ford, Harrison 254
Forster, E.M. 70
Forsyth, Elizabeth 304
Fox, George 402
France, Anatole 311
Francis, Martin 171
Francis, Russ 326
Franzen, Jonathan 230
Frayn, Michael 120
Freeman, Charles W. 206
French, Marilyn 348
Freud, Sigmund 15
Frontinus, Sextus Julius 69
Frost, David 298
Frostrup, Mariella 18
Fry, Stephen 341
Frye, David 196
Fuoss, Robert 109
Gaddafi, Colonel 212
Gainsbourg, Serge 364
Galaska, Ryan 302
Galbraith, John Kenneth 109, 224, 317, 320
Galifianakis, Zach 286
Gallico, Paul 52
Gandhi, Indira 102
Gandhi, Mahatma 214
Garner, John Nance 192
Gascoigne, Paul 68
Gasgoigne, Michael 164
Gates, Bill 65
Gates, Henry Louis, Jnr 54
Genet, Jean 17
George II, King 259
George VI, King 96
George, Dan 37
George, David Lloyd 83, 133, 136, 179, 208
George, Prince of Wales 374
Gibbon, Edward 31
Gide, André 49
Gierach, John 329
Gilbert, John, III 319
Gilbert, Rhod 22
Gilbert, W.S. 293
Gill, AA 168, 197, 266, 298, 409
Gill, Brendan 291
Gillard, Julia 184
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins 75
Gladstone, Catherine, Mrs W.E. Gladstone 132
Gladstone, W.E. 20, 102, 128, 130
Gleiberman, Owen 294
Godwin, William 208
Goebbels, Joseph 137
Goldsmith, Oliver 245
Gonzales, Joe A. 302
Goodman, Arnold Abraham, Lord 45
Gore, Al 197
Gove, Michael 409
Grace, W.G. 323
Grant, Cary 388
Grant, Hugh 291
Grant, Lee 121
Gray, Muriel 63
Graziano, Rocky 328
Greacen, Robert 405
Greenfield, Josh 295
Greer, Germaine 365
Gregory, Dick 81
Gromyko, Andrei 44
Grove, Valerie 366
Guggenheim, Peggy 317
Gurdon, Hugo 164
Gyurcsány, Ferenc 100
Haddon, Mark 244
Hague, William 157
Hailsham, Douglas Hogg, Lord 29
Haldane, J.B.S. 25
Hale, Edward Everett 186
Hall, Peter 303
Hall, Rich 329
Halsey, Margaret 65
Hamilton, Alexander 185
Hamman, Hilton 103
Hammond, Percy 294
Hampton, Christopher 252
Haneda, Koji 406
Hanslick, Eduard 275
Hardie, James Keir 96
Harding, Gilbert 356
Hardy, Jeremy 30
Harmsworth, Alfred, Lord Northcliffe 179, 217
Harper’s Weekly 188
Harris, Richard 344
Harris, Robert 407
Hartnell, Norman 355
Hastings, Scott 327
Hatherhill, Commander G.H. 379
Hayek, Friedrich 320
Hazlitt, William 10, 15, 63, 76, 254
Heaney, Seamus 19
Heaton, Paul 387
Heffer, Eric 102
Heffer, Simon 315
Heffernan, Bill 184
Heller, Walter Wolfgang 318
Hénin, Nicolas 212
Henley, Anthony 124
Hennessy, Peter 176
Henri IV, King 93
Henry VIII, King 378
Hepburn, Katharine 291
Heritage, Stuart 335
Heseltine, Michael 162
Hesse, Hermann 86
Hills, Adam 345
Hird, Thora, Dame 74
Hitchcock, Alfred 295
Hitchens, Christopher 35, 200, 218, 219, 388
Hitler, Adolf 82, 107, 109, 135
Hoffer, Eric 106
Hoffmann, Max
Hoggart, Simon 172
Hohenheim, Theophrastus Bombastus von 231
Holiday, Billie 272
Hollander, John 253
Holloway, Ian 334
Holmes, Oliver Wendell 92
Holmes, Sherlock 85
Holzer, Jenny 19
Hoover, J. Edgar 194
Hope Hawkins, Anthony 251
Hopkins, John 331
Horne Tooke, John 377
Housman, A.E. 232
Houston, Sam 16
Howard, Anthony 223
Howard, Geoffrey 73
Howard, John 64
Howe, Geoffrey, Sir 155
Howells, Kim 267
Howley, Frank L. 119
Hughes, Emmet John 192
Hughes, Howard 340
Hughes, Mervyn 324
Hugo, Victor 388
Hume, Paul 279
Humphries, Barry 164
Hunt, John 268
Hunt, Lamar 314
Hunter, Reginald D. 47
Huntingdon, Samuel 214
Hutton, John 173
Huxley, Julian 25
Huxley, T.H. 29
Hyde, Marina 323, 337, 410, 413
Iannucci, Armando 230
Ibn Ayas 313
Ingham, Bernard 174
Ingrams, Richard 312
Iphicrates 84
Irving, Washingt7on 3
Israel, Lee 291
Jackson, Stewart 408
Jacobson, Howard 173
Jacoby, Joe 326
James, Clive 166, 263, 282, 287, 339
Jarrell, Randall 186
Jefferson, Thomas 223
Jenkins, Simon 20, 105, 111, 114, 163, 164, 215
Jenner, William E. 191
Jennings, Paul 252
Joan of Arc 206
Job 394
Johnson, Boris 74, 75, 167, 175, 410
Johnson, Lady Bird 194
Johnson, Lyndon B. 194, 195, 318
Johnson, Paul 365
Johnson, Rachel 411
Johnson, Samuel 62, 70, 211, 244, 245, 253, 257, 305, 313, 346, 351, 352, 370
Jones III, Bob 406
Jones, Milton 362
Joseph, Keith, Sir 107
Joseph, Michael 228
Joyce, Barnaby 181
Joyce, James 57, 218, 240, 330
Juvenal 110
Kael, Pauline 339
Kafka, Franz 118
Kahlo, Frida 345
Kaiser Wilhelm II 59
Kamm, Oliver 99
Kant, Immanuel 110
Kardashian, Khloe 339
Kardashian, Kim 338
Karr, Alphonse 237
Kaufman, George S. 301
Kaufman, Gerald 169
Kay, John 387
Kay, Peter 286
Keane 333
Keating, Paul 73, 181, 182, 183
Keillor, Garrison 389
Keith, Penelope 18
Kelleher, D.L. 73
Kelly, Grace 221
Kelly, Wayne 328
Kemp, Jack 193
Keneally, Thomas 63
Kennedy, Charles 16397
Kennedy, John F. 194
Kennedy, Nigel 278
Kennedy, Robert 105
Kermode, Mark 307
Kerr, Jean 312
Kettle, Martin 408
Keynes, John Maynard 133
Khan, Jemima 337
King, Martin Luther 79
Kingsley, Charles 262
Kingsmill, Hugh 382
Kinsey, Michael 197
Kinsley, Michael 312
Kipling, Rudyard 359
Kissinger, Henry 57, 196, 197, 335, 337, 362
Klein, J.L. 273
Klemperer, Otto 272
Klepp, L.S. 252
Knausgård, Karl Ove 385
Knight, India 230
Knopf, Alfred A. 318
Knox, John 92
Koch, Ed 405
Krauthammer, Charles 61
Kristofferson, Kris 113
Kubrick, Stanley 43
l’Enclos, Ninon de 353
Ladman, Cathy 26
Laing, R.D. 310
Lamb, Lady Caroline 261
Landor, Walter Savage 54, 87, 263
Landseer, Edwin Henry, Sir 266
Lardner, Ring, Jr. 185
Larson, Doug 49
Lasorda, Tommy 327
Laud, Derek 315
Laurie, Hugh 414
Law, Andrew Bonar 134
Lawley, Sue 326
Lawrence, D.H. 33, 40, 41, 51, 52, 63, 76, 86, 118, 239, 244, 246, 305
Lawrence, T.E. 241
Layden, Frank 322
Layton, Irving 203
Leacock, Stephen 230
Leavis, F.R. 243
Ledwidge, Bernard, Sir 68
Lee, Charles 192
Lehmann, Rosamond 369
Lehrer, Tom 197
Leighton, Frederic 270
LeMay, Curtis E. 207
Lemons, Abe 387
Lennon, John 281
Leno, Jay 322
Lerner, Alan Jay 60
Lette, Kathy 48
Lever, Leslie 102
Levinson, L.L. 53
Lewis Glyn Cothi or Tudur Penllyn 55
Lewis-Smith, Victor 300, 310, 379
Lichfield, John 113
Lieberman, Joseph 198
Lillee, Dennis 324
Lilley, Peter 174
Lincoln, Abraham 81, 188, 189, 190
Lindsay, Kennedy 56
Lindsey, Jim 376
Littlejohn, Richard 98, 99, 225
Lloyd, Harold 388
Lloyd George, David 83, 133, 136, 179, 208
Lloyd Jones, Jenkin 299
Lockhart, J.G. 253
Lodge, David 383
Lomberg, Alan 232
London, Jack 117
Long, Camilla 75, 167, 265, 408
Longworth, Alice Roosevelt 187
Lope de Vego y Carpio, Félix 265
Lorimer, James 237
Lowry, Malcolm 363
Luckman, Charles 52
Lucretius 27
Macaulay, Thomas Babington 34, 41, 93, 229, 248, 249, 259, 261
Macdonald, Dwight 207
Macintyre, Ben 170
MacKenzie, Kelvin 225
Mackintosh, James, Sir 93
Macmillan, Harold 156
Madan, Geoffrey 115
Madonna 361
Madox Ford, Ford 252
Maher, Kevin 53
Majewski, Eric 302
Major, John 162
Malcolm, Janet 219
Malone, M.W. 302
Maltin, Leonard 301
Mance, Henry 342
Mancroft, Lord 325
Mandelson, Peter 106
Manio, Jack de 253
Manley Hopkins, Gerard 258
Mann, Thomas 227
Mansfield, Katherine 244
Marie-Antoinette, Queen 87
Mark, Robert 311
Marlow, Tony 367
Marquis, Don 115
Marsh, Rod 324
Marshall-Andrews, Bob 173
Martin, Ian 176
Martin, Steve 364
Martineau, Harriet 26
Martino, Antonio 67
Marvell, Andrew 67
Marx, Groucho 207, 259, 299, 325, 381
Marx, Jenny 120
Mason, Jackie 380
Massow, Ivan 267
Matthews, Brander 229
Maugham, W. Somerset 20, 234, 235, 252, 362, 371, 385
Mauriac, François 57
Maxton, James 137
Maxwell, Robert 313
Mayer, Louis B. 241
Maynard, John 315
McAdoo, William 190
McCarthy, Eugene J. 102
McEnroe, John 323
McKay, Peter 366
McKie, David 155
McKinney Hubbard, Frank 10
McKittrick Ros, Anna Margaret McLelland 231
McNulty Tony 179
Mead, Margaret 360
Medawar, P.B. 11
Medved, Harry 289
Melbourne, William Lamb, Lord 30, 36, 249
Melly, George 282
Mencken, H.L. 25, 33, 34, 40, 79, 107, 113, 190, 191, 201, 224, 356, 358
Mendès-France, Pierre 57
Meredith, Doug 12
Meredith, George 237
Merino, José Toribio 70
Merkel, Angela 204
Merman, Ethel 280
Metternich, Prince 203
Middleton, Christopher 18
Midler, Bette 339
Millen, Matt 326
Miller, Arthur 23
Miller, Jonathan 316
Millican, Sarah 354
Mills, David 319
Minogue, Kenneth 121
Minter, Alan 329
Mitchell, Adrian 258
Mitford, Mary Russell 236
Mitford, Nancy 86
Mitterrand, François 160
Mo, Timothy 345
Moggach, Deborah 361
Molière 309
Monroe, Marilyn 360
Montague, C.E. 207
Montaigne, Michel de 25, 308, 370, 374
Montgomery, Viscount 368
Mooney, Paul 81
Moore, Lorrie 9
Moore, Thomas 126
Moran, Caitlin 411
Moravia, Alberto 253
Morgan, Elaine 367
Morley, Sheridan 280
Morrissey 285
Mortimer, John 344
Moses 395
Mother Teresa 217
Mountbatten, Louis, Earl 84
Mourinho, José 335
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 26
Mugabe, Robert 172
Muggeridge, Kitty 298
Muggeridge, Malcolm 42, 47, 155, 163, 251
Muggins, Peter 188
Muldoon, Robert 63
Murphy, Maureen 106
Murray, Bill 202
Murray, R.C. 284
Mussolini, Benito 109
Nabokov, Vladimir 237, 238, 310
Nashe, Thomas 226
Nathan, George Jean 302
Nation, Carry 359
Naughton, John 78
Needham, Richard 160
Neel, Alice 320
Neil, Andrew 23
Newhart, Bob 280
Newman, Alfred E. 344
Nietzsche, Friedrich 32, 61, 229, 251, 257, 347, 350, 363, 370
Nightingale, Florence 308, 310, 366
Norris, Steven 170
Novak, Ralph 283
O’Brien, Conor Cruise 162
O’Carroll, Lisa 412
O’Casey, Seán 264
O’Connell, Daniel 128
O’Connor, Flannery 250
O’Doherty, Ian 330
O’Faolain, Sean 357
O’Neil, Paul 329
O’Rourke, P.J. 42, 52, 195, 199, 330, 344, 346
Obama, Barack 202
Onassis, Aristotle 374
Orwell, George 35, 64, 115, 134, 237, 264, 317, 335
Osborne, John 296, 307, 357, 389
Ozersky, Josh 344
Paddleford, Clementine 67
Paget, Reginald 157
Paisley, Ian 161
Pankhurst, Emmeline 101
Parker, Charles 377
Parker, Dorothy 93, 191, 250, 288, 294, 352, 357, 358, 363
Parkinson, Cyril Northcote 106
Parsons, Louella 340
Parton, Dolly 380
Pascal, Blaise 14
Pasquale, Joe 21
Paterno, Joe 326
Patten, John 232
Paul Read, Piers 368
pauljolly65 302
Pavese, Cesare 13
Peacock, Thomas Love 46
Pearsall Smith, Logan 228
Pearson, Allison 222
Pegler, Westbrook 96
Penn, Sean 72
Penn, William 383
Pep, Willie 329
Pepys, Samuel 55
Percy, Charles 194
Perry, Grayson 268
Peter, Laurence J. 318
Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Prince 86, 99, 280
Philips, Emo 328
Philips, Trevor 99
Phillips, H.I. 109
Phocion 103
Picasso, Mrs 271
Pinochet, General Augusto 209
Pinsent, Roger 69
Pitt, William 124
Plank, Doug 326
Plath, Sylvia 361
Plessis, Armand-Emmanuel du 357
Plutarch 393
Poehler, Amy 346
Polito, Rick 302
Pomerleau, Donald 351
Pope, Alexander 259
Pope Clement 398
Popper, Karl 41
Potter, Robert 229
Powell, Anthony 13
Powell, Enoch 21, 139, 221, 387
Powell, Jonathan 173
Power, General Thomas 209
Preminger, Otto 339
Preston, Peter 230
Priestley, J.B. 24, 30, 242, 243, 372
Prince 283
Proust, Marcel 9
Prynne, William 299
Pugh, Emerson 310
Purdum, Todd 196
Putin, Vladimir 252
Queen Alexandra 378
Queen Victoria 60, 132, 305, 366
Queen Wilhelmina 207
Quinton, John 109
Rabutin-Chantal, Marie de 354
Rajneesh, Bhagwan Shree 38
Raleigh, Walter, Sir 21
Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir 56
Rayner, Ray 205
Reade, W.W. 65
Reagan, Nancy 196
Reagan, Ronald 112
Redknapp, Harry 334
Reed, Thomas 200
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste 267
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir 11
Rice, Tim, Sir 303
Rich, Frank 303
Richardson, Miranda 294
Richardson, Vic 323
Rifkind, Hugo 113
Riqueti, Honoré Gabriel 206
Rivarol, Antoine de 257
Rivers, Joan 281, 289, 290, 294, 338, 341
Roberts, Alice 8
Robertson, Robert 343
Robinson, Robert 254
Rock, Chris 287
Rogaly, Joe 112
Roosevelt, Eleanor 29
Roosevelt, Franklin D. 117
Roosevelt, Theodore 191
Rossini, Gioachino 273
Roth, Philip 389
Rudd, Amber 407
Rudin, Stanley 64
Rundgren, Todd 281
Runyon, Damon 251
Rushdie, Salman 234
Rusk, Dean 202
Russell, Bertrand 11, 14, 108, 208, 245
Russell, John, Sir 69
Sackville-West, Vita 27
Safire, William 199
Sai’d 83
Sainsbury, Tim 179
Sakharov, Andrei Dimitrievich 28
Salinger, J. D. 18
Salisbury, Lord 14, 85, 103, 116, 118, 132, 224
Salmond, Alex 175
Sambora, Richie 373
Samuelson, Paul 318
Samuelson, Robert J. 409
Sarkozy, Nicolas 108
Sassoon, Siegfried 208
Sassoon, Victor 82
Satie, Erik 274
Scargill, Arthur 165
Scheider, Louis 274
Schopenhauer, Arthur 43
Schwarzkopf, H. Norman, III 209
Scott, C.P. 297
Scruton, Roger 17
Searle, Adrian 267
Secchia, Peter 67
Sedaris, David 51
Sedley, Charles, Sir 403
Seitz, Raymond 85
Selden, John 29
Self, Will 175
Seneca 386
Sentamu, John 31
Serafinowicz, Peter 340
Sewell, Brian 383
Seymour, William Kean, Lord 180
Shakespeare, William 49, 309, 311, 358, 362, 365, 379, 402
Shankly, Bill 335
Shaw, George Bernard 14, 34, 44, 56, 88, 95, 115, 211, 220, 228, 275, 278, 290, 292, 305, 306, 363, 374
Shaw-Lefevre, Charles 170
Shear, Marie 349
Sheridan, General Philip 78
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley 124
Sheridan, Tom 125
Shinwell, Emanuel 116
Sidibe, Gabourey 338
Sidney, Philip, Sir 48
Sigismund 392
Simmons, Matthew 334
Simpson, Homer 10
Skrabanek, Petr 8
Sloan, Jerry 328
Smart, Christopher 258
Smith, Adam 317
Smith, Sydney 32, 60, 61, 74, 249, 293, 313, 316, 364, 376, 378
Smith, Welton 404
Smuts, Jan 136
Socrates 108
Solon 313
Somerset Maugham, W. 20, 234, 235, 252, 362, 371, 385
Somoza, Anastasio 205
Sontag, Susan 81
Sophocles 356
Soubry, Anna 166
Southey, Robert 404
Southwell, Charles 38
Spark, Muriel 349
St John-Stevas, Norman 161
Stanley, Thomas, Lord 102
Stanwyck, Barbara 339
Starkey, David 20
Steel, Mark 336
Stein, Gertrude 246
Steinbeck, John 329
Steinem, Gloria 377
Stelzer, Irwin 318
Stephen, James Kenneth 263
Stevenson, Melford, Mr Justice 72, 74
Stevenson, Robert Louis 87, 187, 372
Stinnett, Caskie 112
Stocks, Mary 24
Stone, Sharon 358
Stoppard, Tom 20, 218, 241, 267, 269, 311
Strachey, Lytton 243
Styles, John 261
Suárez, Luis 333
Summers, Lawrence 40
Susskind, David 288
Swift, Jonathan 91, 213, 259, 350
Swift, Taylor 283
Syme, Ronald 100
Taft, William Howard 185
Taleb, Nassim Nicholas 320
Talleyrand, Charles, Prince de 50, 110, 357, 389
Tan-Sun, Chen 65
Tay, Microsoft bot 80
Taylor, A.J.P. 106, 133, 135, 244
Taylor, Elizabeth 18
Taylor Parker, Henry 272
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr 275
Tebbit, Norman 104
Tedder, J.D. 34
Templeton Strong, George 275
Tennyson, Alfred Lord 233, 258, 263, 264
Thabit, Hassan Ibn 392
Thackeray, William 260
Thatcher, Margaret 111, 121, 159, 160, 161, 162, 385
Thomas, Dylan 55, 244, 305, 345
Thomas, Gwyn 56
Thomas, Irene 378
Thomas, Lowell 241
Thompson, E.P. 203
Thorpe, Jeremy 156
Titian 268
Toscanini, Arturo 277
Toynbee, Arnold 53
Trollope, Frances 303
Trotsky, Leon 119
Trueman, Fred 323
Truman, Harry S. 192, 195, 279
Trumpington, Jean, Baroness 180
Turner, Janice 30
Tusk, Donald 409
Twain, Mark 16, 22, 50, 57, 78, 85, 186, 214, 218, 235, 269, 270, 343
Tynan, Kenneth 231, 279, 289, 295, 342
Ustinov, Peter 266
Van Doren, Mamie 357
Van Morrison, George, Sir 15
Van Wyck Brooks 262
Vanstone, W.H. 31
Vaughan, Janet, Dame 158
Vaughan Williams, Ralph 276
Veeck, Bill 327
Vidal, Gore 9, 171, 196, 199, 200, 271, 368
Viner, Brian 296
Vizinczey, Stephen 21
Voltaire 26, 28, 38, 304, 308, 374
von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang 45
von Treitschke, Heinrich 45
Wagner, Richard 273
Wakeham, John, Lord 159
Walden, George 45
Walker, Alexander 293
Walpole, Horace 49, 77, 257, 304
Walsh, Louis 286
Warren, Earl 216
Warsi, Sayeeda 407
Watkins, Alan 172
Watson, Joe 302
Watt, James 80
Watterson, Bill 18
Waugh, Auberon 101, 106, 111, 265, 287
Waugh, Evelyn 55, 89, 138, 216, 251, 307
Waugh, Mark 324
Wayne, John 11
Webster, Daniel 358
Weldon, Fay 382
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke 37, 105, 159, 209
Wentworth, Peter 92
Weston, General 210
Wharton, Edith 267
Wheeler, Hugh 377
Whistler, James 269
White, Theodore H. 194
Whitehall, Jack 381
Whitelaw, William 157
Whitman, Walt 187
Whitton, Charlotte 359
Wholey, Dennis 9
Widdecombe, Ann 165
Wilde, Oscar 13, 45, 52, 117, 222, 233, 238, 258, 263, 268, 270, 300, 306, 331, 343, 379
Wilding, Michael 295
William, Duke of Gloucester, later George III 247
Williams, Edward Bennet 105
Williams, Tennessee 9, 43, 310
Willie, Groundsman 50
Willkie, Wendell 108
Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester 94
Wilson, E.O. 120
Wilson, Earl 300
Wilson, Edmund 239
Wilson, Harold 158
Winchell, Walter 299
Wodehouse, P.G. 20, 62, 331, 354, 384
Wolf, Martin 201
Wolfe, Humbert 220
Wolfe, Tom 103
Wolfowitz, Paul 212
Wood, Dudley 56
Wooldridge, Ian 323
Woolf, Virginia 238, 239, 242, 304, 350, 360, 369, 385
Worsthorne, Peregrine 225
Wortham, Hugo 226
Wright, Paul, Sir 62
Wright, Peter 127
Wright, Steven 311
Wyndham Lewis, Percy 246, 247, 264
Yoko Ono 355
Youngman, Henry 374
Yutang, Lin 44
Zangwill, Israel 305
Zappa, Frank 226