My Little Lollipop 
Jenny Diski
- The Truth at Last: My Story by Christine Keeler and Douglas Thompson
Christine Keeler votes Conservative. She would, wouldn’t she? Having seen off the Macmillan Government in the 1960s, exposed the squalid underbelly of upper-class public life and fired the starting pistol to begin the sexual revolution by revealing that ‘You’ve never had it so good’ was actually ‘You’ve never had it so often,’ she reckons she knows what’s what about the world of politics and power (though sex and men are not really her thing). She has nothing but contempt for Blair’s New Labour: ‘just a bunch of control freaks, just more ardent, more determined to bring in rules and take away our freedoms. What I have learned most is that those who would lead have agendas rather than feelings or emotions.’
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Jenny Diski is writing a book about St Helena. A novel, Apology for the Woman Writing, is coming out in November.
Other articles by this contributor:
Jowls are available · ‘Second Life’
Mirror Images · Jenny Diski sees off Piers Morgan
Flowery, rustic, tippy, smokey · Jenny Diski drinks a cup of tea
Diary · Jenny Diski is dragged to the shoe shop
Hang on to the doily · Catherine M.
Who wears hats now? · Jenny Diski walks back to the future
A Long Forgotten War · Jenny Diski writes about Promise of a Dream: A Memoir of the 1960s by Sheila Rowbotham
Tremble for Tomorrow · In the Vilna Ghetto