Diaries: into Politics - Alan Clark

"Isn't Blackpool loathsome?" writes Alan Clark in his diary entry for the 1973 Tory conference. "On the Promenade - vulgar, common primitives drifting about in groups or standing, loitering, prominently." And if you think he was a bit harsh on the general public there wait until you read what he thinks of some of his fellow politicians. Welcome to the second volume of the late Alan Clark's candid and sometimes eye-opening diaries. This time around we travel back to the early seventies when the eminently quotable 'maverick' has just been elected to parliament as a Conservative MP and go through to the Falklands War, taking in along the way the ...  Read the complete review

Alan Clark Diaries “Into Politics” are his own hand written diaries, transferred into print. They are his thoughts on the major events of the times. Alan Clark was a conservative MP, most of the time on the backbenches, throughout the Thatcher years and latterly for a portion of Major’s government and for a short time, before his death in opposition. These diary extracts chart his entry into the political arena, from 1972, when he was fighting for adoption by a constituency, to his role in opposition and then the Thatcher governments. This particular volume stops at the end of 1982, after the Falklands War, in which Alan Clark succeeded in ...  Read the complete review