Sentences with phrase «political diarist»
Alan had lived life to the full: the son of a famous man; a great lover of women, most significantly his wife Jane; a novelist; a military historian; a louche playboy; a politician and a minister; and not least a political diarist.
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Political diarists include Harold Nicolson, Duff Cooper, Harold Macmillan, Hugh Dalton, Tony Benn, Barbara Castle, Richard Crossman, Paddy Ashdown, Gyles Brandreth, Alastair Campbell, Oona King and Michael Spicer.
He left parliament in 2010, a year after the publication of his third diary, A View From The Foothills, cemented his place in the pantheon of truly great political diarists.
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Mellor states that «The paintings of this fashioned minority group of camp icons are vulnerable to my own diarist situations... overloaded collusions of identity, bombardment of consumerist products and imagery, psychological trauma, political and financial impotency and so on as a catalogue of felt experiences of the isolation, frustration and anxiety of the urban condition.»