Be mean and nasty
Jenny Diski: Shirley Porter’s Story, 25 May 2006
Nothing like a Dame: The Scandals of Shirley Porter
by Andrew Hosken.
Granta, 372 pp., £20, March 2006,1 86207 809 2 Show More
by Andrew Hosken.
Granta, 372 pp., £20, March 2006,
“... the council officers when she took over as leader in 1983, ‘is an unpleasant fact of life.’ Andrew Hosken, a Radio 4 reporter who investigated the Porter scandals for the Today programme, suggests that the daughter of a multi-millionaire knew less than nothing about redundancy, but perhaps that’s not entirely right. Being rich has never precluded ... ”
