Marina Hyde: If politics is drama, Clarke’s a spear carrier (on a good day)
The end of the month holds a special dread these days, because if four weeks have elapsed, one knows with absolute certainty that it will only be minutes before Charles Clarke issues a denial of his total irrelevance.
Posted on March 31st, 2007 at 11:21am under Chicken Nuggets, New Labour, UK politics
Charles Clarke, like climate sceptics, is a wonderful study in self-delusion.
Endlessly fascinating. He might be a tool but, like Blair, when Clarke retires, politics if going to be a duller thing to write about.
I agree Justin. Charles Clarke is mesmerising – he can lurch from one catastrophe to the next and still give off an air of surprise. I think the acting analogy is a fine one – poor actors attract so much more of my attention than good ones and the same goes for Charles Clarke in political circles.
Charles – don’t go.
Did this piece get published because Marina knows the Guardian’s editor?
Wrong blog, farnboro. You want Guido Fawkes’ place.