by Craig Brown
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CRAIG BROWN has been a columnist for Private Eye magazine in London for 22 years. He writes a twice-weekly column for London’s Daily Mail and is a frequent contributor to Vanity Fair. Well known as a parodist, he has been called “a genius” by Auberon Waugh, “the most screamingly funny living writer” by Barry Humphries, and “a national treasure” by Helen Fielding (author of Bridget Jones’s Diary). He recently became the first journalist ever to win three different awards at the annual UK Press Awards.
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The Hounding of John Thomas
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