Matthew Newman looks back on the late former MP’s writing for the Guardian. Plus, George Baugh on his role in history of the Chagos archipelago
My mother was an admirer of Roy Hattersley (Obituary, 14 June), and would regularly cut out his Endpiece column from the Guardian and post it to me when I was a student in the early 1990s. These articles were always witty and thought-provoking.
I’ve just found one of these clippings (from 1991) in my paperback copy of Arnold Bennett’s The Old Wives’ Tale, where he describes buying the same edition in a Bath bookshop, having been seduced by the cover, and then by the book itself. On this advice, I bought and read the book myself.
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Matthew Newman looks back on the late former MP’s writing for the Guardian. Plus, George Baugh on his role in history of the Chagos archipelagoMy mother was an admirer of Roy Hattersley (Obituary, 14 June), and would...
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