Once home, I taped copies of my new list on the refrigerator, the bathroom mirror, the dashboard of my car.

BBC: The bloom of cancer

Those who fell foul of him included politicians (Jonathan Aitken, Jeffrey Archer, Reginald Maudling), union leaders (Clive Jenkins), architects (John Poulson), journalists (notably his boss at the Mirror, David Montgomery), businessmen (the list is long), as well as disc jockeys, civil servants and countless others.

ECONOMIST: Obituary

Last year, despite the Vancouver Olympics being well in the rearview mirror, he had only fallen to No. 8 on the list.

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