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Go Home Life Imitates "the Thick Of It"

THE PLANK JULY 9, 2007

Life Imitates "the Thick Of It"

BY TNR STAFF AND TNR STAFF

Back at his own blog our friend Alex Massie catches a gem from Alastair Campbell's newly-released diaries. Writes Campbell of one dreary meeting:

War Cabinet. [Secretary of State for International Development] Clare Short rabbiting on more than ever. I slipped Tony a note about the time Saddam shot his health minister at a meeting because he was annoying him and did he want me to get a gun? 'Yes', he scribbled.

--Michael Crowley

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