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Arkus, caustic witness to a vain emperor's tailoring

Over the years the late lamented Michael Arkus used The Baron effectively to puncture the pomposities and contradictions when a group of North Americans took over Reuters without understanding the essence of a long established news agency. Like many I am grateful he took the role of the bystander who saw that the emperor was naked despite cronies praising his new clothes. ■