Be mean and nasty
Jenny Diski: Shirley Porter’s Story, 25 May 2006
Nothing like a Dame: The Scandals of Shirley Porter
by Andrew Hosken.
Granta, 372 pp., £20, March 2006,1 86207 809 2 Show More
by Andrew Hosken.
Granta, 372 pp., £20, March 2006,
“... you can buy three cemeteries and a pint of beer and still have change from a pound? Answer: the London Borough of Westminster. Boom boom. This makes the price of a pint of beer in 1986 slightly less than 85p. The cemeteries, in Hanwell, East Finchley and Mill Hill, whose upkeep was the responsibility of the Highways and Works Committee of Westminster City ... ”