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Obituaries — the unvarnished truth?

Why we should speak ill of the dead

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Should we speak ill of the dead? Professor Jeremy Black, who is tired of sugar-coated tales of the recently departed, tells The Critic’s deputy editor, Graham Stewart, that we should.

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