Do They Know It’s Christmas has been re-released, 40 years on. But which other charity singles truly stand the test of time?

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I do not feel in the least professorial. So writes Isaiah Berlin, in a letter to the American philosopher Irving Singer in November 1960, in this third volume of Berlin’s letters. More selective than ...