
Jeffrey Archer (1940-2026): A writer of fiction in all senses
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Following the death of novelist and former political Jeffrey Archer, Eliot Wilson looks back at a complicated life At the beginning of October 1999, the election for the new post of Mayor of London was only seven months away. Ken Livingstone, left-wing MP for Brent East and the last leader of the Greater London Council before its abolition in 1986, wanted to be Labour’s candidate, while Tony Blair’s New Labour camarilla would have preferred almost…
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