Setting out to diagnose the social ills that face Britain, Hensher, in his refusal to empathize, ends up seeming symptomatic of them.

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Lennon may well have been one of the last major cultural figures to have lived in a world in which people wrote to one another, rather than communicating by telephone or email, and though he no doubt to the disapproval of Mr. Hensher often typed his missives, he also sketched and added marginal notes.

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