Modern politicians don’t read except Gordon Brown, Britain’s prime minister-in-waiting ?

Charles Davis writes “The Guardian Reports modern politicians don’t read. Tony Blair may claim Ivanhoe as his favourite book, but he is clearly a John Grisham man. His bibliophilic reputation is unlikely ever to recover from the tale of him meeting Ian McEwan at a party and telling him he had several of his works hanging on the walls of Number 10. Margaret Thatcher said she liked to “re-read” Frederick Forsyth novels on holiday. William Hague had a weedy fondness for The Wind in the Willows. John Major predictably liked Trollope. Oh, for the days of Gladstone’s classical scholarship and Disraeli’s novelistic nous.”

July 10, 2004 by Uncategorized 0

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