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The subheading is a reference to a journalist, Jeffrey Bernard. He wrote for The Spectator magazine, and when he wasn’t well enough to submit his column the magazine would carry the message “Jeffrey Bernard is unwell”.
He was, sadly, an alcoholic. Indeed, another journalist, Jonathan Meades, once wrote that B…
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