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’s new novel, Apology for the Woman Writing, will be published in November. She is currently bobbing about on the South Atlantic.
Other articles by this contributor:
Tremble for Tomorrow · In the Vilna Ghetto
Giving Hysteria a Bad Name · At home with the Mellys
Seriously Uncool · Susan Sontag
A keen horseman with a new pair of green suede chaps is guaranteed to ride into the sunset · A Slight and Delicate Creature: The Memoirs of Margaret Cook
A Long Forgotten War · Jenny Diski writes about Promise of a Dream: A Memoir of the 1960s by Sheila Rowbotham
XXX · Doing what we’re told
The Housekeeper of a World-Shattering Theory · Mrs Freud
Oh, Andrea Dworkin · Misogyny: The Male Malady by David Gilmore
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