Murray’s back-end masterpiece

I have just read Marketing Week (October 17). As always, Murray is an absolute joy – so deliciously irreverent. It isn’t that his prejudices are showing – well, actually, it is – please don’t let him change. I am always tempted to skip to the back page, but force myself to work through the main body of the magazine and save Murray as the pièce de résistance – and he never disappoints.

ps. The magazine is always an interesting read.

Maggie Dawson

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