Re: The Alan Clark Diaries
I wonder why it is that the life of "a classic bounder" is so attractive when he is well-known (and dead) yet when confronted personally by the same behaviour in life, or on Forums such as this, the perpetrator is excoriated? Alan Clark's biography was reviewed in a recent New Statesman magazine (the sort of publication I imagine to be PeterUK's staple reading matter) and I quote one rather telling paragraph:
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The author is helped by the man he is writing about being all of a piece. The politician who was "economical with the actualit├й" over arms in Iraq is recognisably the same character who invented a bit of dialogue in order to justify the title of his first (and best) work of non-fiction, The Donkeys (1961).
Come to think of it, the title The Donkeys sounds like the sort of book that could be written about PeterUK.
Re: The Alan Clark Diaries
Gosh, the Colonel/Homintern is getting a bit clumsy and heavy-handed in second/third incarnation, isn't he? I reckon the last line of the post is what it is all really about.