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He sees politics less on a Labour-Tory spectrum and more as part of a Herculean struggle between brilliance and mediocrity (how he and the pooterish Mr Duncan Smith ever thought they would get on is unclear).
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He sometimes drinks Madeira."Gowing produced a pint sample-bottle of Madeira, which had been given him, which he said would get rid of the blues. I dare say it would have done so if there had been more of it; but as Gowing helped himself to three glasses, it did not leave much for Carrie and me to get rid of the blues with." (Diary of a Nobody) The character has spawned the word Pooterism (Pooterish, Pooteresque), which means taking oneself far too seriously: believing that one's importance or influence is far greater than it really is.
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Evelyn Waugh praised The Diary of a Nobody as "the funniest book in the world" The novelist Evelyn Waugh had been familiar with the Diary since his childhood. It was a great favourite of his parents—Arthur Waugh used to read passages aloud to his family,Waugh 1983 (A Little Learning), p. 71 and Evelyn's biographer Selena Hastings has drawn attention to the distinctly Pooterish elements in the Waugh household.Hastings, pp. 12–13 Evelyn Waugh was initially contemptuous of the book, but grew to admire it, to the extent of writing in his 1930 essay "One Way to Immortality" that it was "the funniest book in the world".
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He was a reporter for the South Wales Echo, a Cardiff-based evening newspaper, where he was a contemporary of Michael Buerk (later to become a distinguished BBC correspondent) and of Sue Lawley (later to become presenter of the BBC magazine programme Nationwide)."The Reporter's Tale" by Tom Davies Publisher:Berwyn Mountain Press In his autobiography Michael Buerk wrote "Alun Michael with his ginger toothbrush-moustache and battered corduroy jacket, was a rather Pooterish character for the Sixties. He did not stay in journalism, which was no surprise, but went into politics, which certainly was"."A Road Taken" by Michael Buerk (Hutchinson 2004) Michael in fact left journalism in 1971 and spent 16 years until 1987 as a "youth and community worker" before entering Parliament.
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