Shirley Some Mistake ; Books: Dame Shirley Porter's Misdemeanours Have Cost Her Dear - but Why Did Her Lieutenants Escape?
Evening Standard - London › March 20, 2006
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Nothing Like a Dame: The Scandals of Shirley Porter by Andrew Hosken (Granta, Pounds 20)
HOW easy it is to despise Dame Shirley Porter, the ranting harpy whose corrupt reign at Westminster City Council set new standards of misbehaviour in public life. Who can forget that spooky, gravity- defying hairdo and those padded shoulders as she single-handedly cut a malign swathe through the laws that protect the probity of government in London?See the full content of this document
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Shirley Some Mistake ; Books: Dame Shirley Porter's Misdemeanours Have Cost Her Dear - but Why Did Her Lieutenants Escape?
Well, here is a book to remind us. It is a superbly researched, elegantly written mix of investigative journalism and political biography. It lays bare the innermost ...
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