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GEORGE WALDEN

Not one to mince his words, the ex-Tory MP for Buckinghamshire, George Walden, famously called the scribblings of MP Chris Smith 'sanctimonious bilge' and 'populist drivel'. This month, Walden, a Chinese-speaking former Foreign Office official and private secretary to David Owen, reviews Stephen Bayley's new book General Knowledge. Now a writer himself, he lives with his wife and family in west London. His latest book, The New Elites, was published recently.