Monday, 18 October 2004

Very faint praise indeed

A Tory life peer died recently, full of years, and there was a four-column piece about his achievements which, however, noted that:
X will be best remembered for his chairmanship of the Conservative parliamentary finance committee (1979-92)…..

Obituary writers can be very cruel without meaning to be.

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