Monthly Archives: December 2004

Note from a scandal

Readers of the Spectator this week will have learned from Stephen Glover’s column that the whole Blunkett/Fortier affair came out because a secretary in Blunkett’s office has been conducting an affair of her own with a senior executive in News … Continue reading Continue reading

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The Guardian First Book party

You could tell this was a proper literary party from the exclamations of disgust that greeted the doggy bags that had slim volumes of poetry1 in them. There is always one book on the shortlist that you want, three you’d … Continue reading Continue reading

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