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siggy | 10:46 Wed 12th Sep 2001 | Arts & Literature
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Paddy Ashdown's diaries have recently been published and much fuss made of them in the media. Why does every retiring politician - or any public figure - actually think we care? And, presumably they've been edited, so they aren't a true reflection of what the person in question really thought at the time, are they?
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The extracts I saw of the Ashdown diaries were pretty interesting. Not because he's particularly interesting - he comes over as a rather leaden figure - but because of the light it shed on Blair and New Labour. That's the real interest in these things: the diarist will have been involved in major events and rubbed shoulders with world figures. And some are good, or at least entertaining - Alan Clark's diaries for example.

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