Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Monday, 6 June 2011
That Word
Jacques Chirac once called Margaret Thatcher a "con". He had not meant it kindly or politely. But he, a very good English-speaker, was still baffled at the amount of fuss.
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