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 Image in the Water - Douglas Hurd
 Image in the Water - Douglas Hurd ... right-wing Alcester sweeps in as Tory leader of the opposition. When his baby is kidnapped, it leads to an upsurge of support and Alcester redoubles his campaign to get the Scots out of the UK.Newest Review: ... his late 60's, has had the Premiership thrust upon him on a caretaker basis. Now I wonder who that character could be ... more ... based on? Dream on, Douglas! The Thunder newspaper has no doubt who is the best woman for the job, so they set out to destroy the Home Secretary by publishing a photograph showing him as a young man, holding hands with a German lad on a beach thirty-years earlier. Courtauld, now a family man, decides to withdraw from the contest, when the publicity causes his son to run away from school. The idea that such a photograph might be scandalous these days, let alone more than a quarter of a century in the future, is either de...more |
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Image in the Water - Douglas Hurd: 2020 visionless (620 words)
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Douglas Hurd (or the Right Honorable Lord Hurd of Westwell as he is now) was the Home Secretary from 1985-89 and Foreign Secretary from 1989-95, but he will forever be remembered as the one with the ice-cream cone head on Spitting Image. The Conservative Prime Minister, Simon Russell has kicked the bucket, he is an ex-PM, he has ceased to be. Right away the reader is asked to suspend his disbelief - I mean, whoever heard of a successful politician called Simon? And a Tory Prime Minister? That's just absurd. Even if this is set nearly thirty years in the future. There appear to be two candidates to succeed Russell - the Chancellor of the Exchequer, ... Read the complete review
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