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Matt Ridley writes an article on The Implications of Lower Climate Sensitivity in yesterday’s Times and comments on Rupert Darwalll’s ‘insightful new book’ The Age of Global Warming.

Last night we celebrated the launch of Cancer, Love and the Politics of Hope: The Life and Vision of Philip Salem M.D. It was a fantastic evening at The Royal Thames Yacht Club. Guests came from around the world to hear Dr. Philip Salem speak, and celebrate the publication of this important title.

Join us for an evening with Anne Dickson on Thursday at Waterstones, Piccadilly. She will be sharing ideas from A Woman in Your Right! Not an event to be missed…

Join us for an evening with Anne Dickson on Thursday at Waterstones, Piccadilly. She will be sharing ideas from A Woman in Your Right! Not an event to be missed…

Come and celebrate the publication of Walking with the Light at The Wiener Library on Thursday 30th May!

Come and celebrate the publication of Walking with the Light at The Wiener Library on Thursday 30th May!

My autobiography was published in late April, the first of three planned volumes, called ‘Backing Into Light’, this one named ‘My Father’s Son’. It starts with an ante-natal experience which left (as they must all do) a lifelong terror of…the source which produced it. Something I only began to understand late in my life. The book tells of a growing sexual awareness, several erotic encounters stamp one indelibly; in fact I’m pretty sure that all our eroticism is based on the very earliest sensations and sights, even if later we’ve quite forgotten them. I tell of school crushes, both Grammar and Art, the throes of trying to write through adolescence, my national service treating VD my first success, publication of a short story in The London Magazine, my affair with a Brighton vicar, with various literary guys, my first marriage; and takes me to divorce and the terrible fight through the courts for proper access to my son against the charges of homosexuality and drunkenness - then in the sixties considered serious enough to stop me from ever seeing my son ever again. My solicitor at the time said to my wife’s solicitors, ‘You don’t bother to try and stop a heterosexual father from seeing his daughter.’ But all arguments were of no avail then. The book takes me up to my second play, Spitting Image, being performed in the West End and then in New York.

—Colin Spencer on the first volume of his autobiography, Backing into Light: My Father’s Son. Available now!

Here’s a photo from the launch of Renaissance Emir. Author Ted Gorton with his wife Andree, his son Alex and Hanan al-Shaykh.

Here’s a photo from the launch of Renaissance Emir. Author Ted Gorton with his wife Andree, his son Alex and Hanan al-Shaykh.

He praises Darwall’s book for its equable even-handedness, its unbiased handling of the history, ideology, politics and economic and political consequences of global warming. Darwall’s book, he says, doesn’t tell us what to think, doesn’t deny or affirm man-made global warming, but it shows how the integrity of scientific discipline is undermined when it is put at the service of political ideology.

—The June issue of Tatler on Crispin Odey’s speech at the launch of The Age of Global Warming by Rupert Darwall

Bryan Forbes died peacefully and surrounded by family on Wednesday night. Our Chairman writes about Bryan’s many talents and the first time they met. The Soldier’s Story by Bryan Forbes is available now.

Bryan Forbes CBE was an actor, director and author of The Soldier’s Story. He died after a long illness at the age of 86. Our thoughts are with his wife and family.

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