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THE BLAIR YEARS : EXTRACTS FROM THE ALASTAIR CAMPBELL DIARIES by Alastair Campbell Hutchinson, £25, pp. 816, ISBN 9780091796297 £20(plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655
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A Dark Tale of Insider Dealing
THE BLAIR YEARS : EXTRACTS FROM THE ALASTAIR CAMPBELL DIARIES by Alastair Campbell Hutchinson, £25, pp. 816, ISBN 9780091796297 £20(plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655
For the most part political diarists are located on the fringes rather than at the centre of power. The two finest British journals from the 20th century were written by failures -- Alan Clark and Chips Channon. Only rarely did they gain the sustained access they craved to the great figures of their day. They were looking in hungrily from outside, yearning for advancement which never came. Both journals...See the full content of this document
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