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- ↑ Daily Telegraph columns
- ↑ The Guardian contributor page
- ↑ Evening Standard columns Archived 3 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ The Review Show
- ↑ Charlotte Higgins You Talkin' to Me? by Sam Leith - review The Guardian, 13 October 2011
- ↑ Killian Fox The Coincidence Engine by Sam Leith – review The Guardian, 3 April 2011
- ↑ Literary Editor Mark Amory retires from The Spectator, but will he be replaced?, Melville House Publishing, 19 September 2014
- ↑ The Comment Awards 2017 #eiCA17 brought to you by Editorial Intelligence Archived 29 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine , Winners 2016
