I missed it at the time, but last October one of my favourite journalists, Neal Ascherson , turned 90. To mark the occasion, he was interviewed by Tim Adams in the Observer: There are certain writers who seem singled out to bear witness to their times. Neal Ascherson first had a graphic inkling of that fate when he was a small boy in Peterborough, where his father, a naval officer, was stationed at a factory making torpedoes.  "It would have been the summer of 1940," Ascherson says, "and I was coming back to the village where we lived, from school, on the bus.

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