Peter Mandelson again

I spent last night with Peter Mandelson’s memoir, The Third Man - about which more later perhaps after I’ve written the review. Some of the pleasure of it comes from the confirmation of Downing Street gossip that I once thought I knew and maybe then even cared about. There would have been even more pleasure if the dark events described had been happening in someone else's  country.

It has certainly been  peculiar to be taken back to political events that I watched so closely as Editor of The Times but which at the TLS now seem part of a wholly different life. On the subject of that life as it is now, there are two more pleasing reviews of the American edition of Spartacus Road - from Michael Korda in the Daily Beast and Barry Strauss in the Wall Street Journal.

Comments

[Clayton Burns]

Sir Peter, You seem to have totally missed it--the Tracy Goodwin sensation at John Wells's Phonetic Blog. Before you will be allowed to come to Toronto (again, perhaps), Tracy is going to teach you English with a British accent--up to Canadian standards.

Sensational! Within days, you will be speaking just as if you were the King of England--up to New York standards. This is wicked and beyond belief. I have never seen anything like it.

Enroll today.