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Hilary Spurling
Art
How The Spectator discovered Helen Mirren
From Enoch Powell to Danny La Rue: Hilary Spurling remembers how she was given free rein when she took over the arts and books pages in the 1960s
By Hilary Spurling
Book Review
Three remarkable sisters at the heart of 20th-century Chinese politics
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China by Jung Chang reviewed
By Hilary Spurling