How Real Should a Pm Be? ; Writing Fiction About British Politics Involves a Difficult Decision - Can You Plausibly Change the Name of the Prime Minister? Since the Days of Margaret Thatcher, Maybe Not

Evening Standard - London › April 18, 2005

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AT MY secondary school in Hertfordshire, our head teacher had the practice of reading the news headlines over a classroom Tannoy system at lunchtime. This was unusual but useful to an aspiring journalist.

But, on the morning of 16 March 1976, he cut into an English lesson with a newsflash: the Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, had suddenly resigned.

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How Real Should a Pm Be? ; Writing Fiction About British Politics Involves a Difficult Decision - Can You Plausibly Change the Name of the Prime Minister? Since the Days of Margaret Thatcher, Maybe Not

I remember the building filling with cheers and stamped feet (most boys had adopted their parents' Tory politics) but also immediately thinking that this couldn't be a simple retirement. It was a Catholic school and a picture of the faith's only American president, John F Kennedy, hung on the wall next to...

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