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- ↑ "Q. How do hippy aristocrats broaden their minds? A. They bore holes in their heads". Evening Standard . 14 September 1995.
- ↑ Birth date from Bore Hole
- ↑ "Like a hole in the head". The Sunday Independent . 31 August 2008.
- ↑ O'Hagan, Andrew (7 June 2018). "The Tower". London Review of Books .
- ↑ Gathorne-Hardy, Jenny (16 September 1995). "The Hole Story of my Life". The Independent on Sunday .
