In April I wrote THIS story about The Spectator's Tamzin Lightwater. I obviously didn't spell check it, but it only attracted two Posts. This week's Tamzin column features a piece about David Davis, which happens most weeks. She writes...
"He's [DD's] champing at the bit because he thinks we're not ready for Gordon: 'When you hunt big game you better make sure you're ready to kill with the first shot.'
Now the thing is, I have heard DD actually say that. Repeatedly. With regularity that causes eyes to roll. And it's not the first time I've spotted such things in this column. Now, if I think I know the identity of Tamzin Lightwater, would it spoil the joke if I revealed it?
Oh go on.....
ReplyDeleteGo on Iain, do unmask her...
ReplyDeleteYou're a rotten tease.
ReplyDeleteNo - the real person wouldn't be as much fun as the illusion of Tamzin, Poppy and others that I have in my mind.
ReplyDeleteI think Private Eye have already named her in 'Street of Shame'...
ReplyDeleteas much as you 'poop-ed' the Party's new logo...?
ReplyDeleteGo on Iain, you know we want to know!
ReplyDeleteNo!
ReplyDeleteI love Tamzin. If you name her and stop her column I may have to kill you with the first shot.....
Sehr geEhrter Iain
ReplyDeleteYou could & you should discover your Guilty Secret to us, your loyal Supporters, who are self-evidently Men (& in these enlightened times, Women) of taste & discretion
Those amongst us who are Solicitors, would offer you legal privelege (since you would be seeking their legal advice)
Modelling ourselves on Mr Darcy (Pride & Prejudice), we assure you of our secrecy - your Secret would be safe with us ...
Our Geheimnis [silence] can be bought
Your obedient servant etc
G Eagle
Who cares. Matthew d'Ancona is turning Speccie into a lifestyle mag. Tamzin and the newly introduced Style/Travel etc sections should be scrapped.
ReplyDelete"One shot". De Niro in Deerhunter.
Brown has the appearance of a Big Beast but the heart of a hyena. Like most cowards he will die politically a hundred times because of his repeated failure to seize opportunities when presented.
How about this...
ReplyDelete"THEY TALK of little else at Tory HQ, claims Spectator editor Matthew d'Ancona. The new spoof column "Diary of a Notting Hill Nobody, by Tamzin Lightwater", which describes the life and scrapes of a junior Cameroon at campaign HQ, has generated huge interest in Tory high command."David Cameron and Francis Maude are big fans," says d'Ancona. "There has been a frenzied search for the identity of the author. At least five members of Shadow Cabinet have pleaded with me."
Now d'Ancona has had a T-shirt printed with a picture of Tamzin on the front, and the line IT ISN'T ME! on the back. Thirty T- shirts have been sent to Cameron and Maude. "
So, if you know, Iain, then why doesn't the shadow cabinet??
(Is it d'Ancona?)
For Tamzin read Boris!
ReplyDeleteIt's you, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteGo on, then Iain! Confirm or deny!
ReplyDeleteIf Iain's all th epeople he's supposed to be, no wonder he's had to give up Politico's! (Or was it the filthy lucre?)
ReplyDeleteGriswold is right, the Speccie is not what it was (and should be), and the Tamzin column and the lifestyle stuff are rubbish. It has become yet another magazine when it is supposed to be a newspaper. I have found myself just turning the pages recently rather than finding anything I want to read.
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