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| 2004 |
I merely report this story from the Independent:
TWO YEARS after he received a knighthood, another signal honour for Sir Max Hastings. The Anthony Powell Society is to give him its annual Widmerpool award, a gong presented to the public figure who most embodies the traits of Kenneth Widmerpool, a character from Powell's novel sequence A Dance to the Music of Time."Widmerpool is variously pompous; self-obsessed and self-important; obsequious to those in authority and a bully to those below him," reads the society's newsletter. "He is ambitious and pushy; ruthless; humourless; blind to the feelings of others; and has a complete lack of self-knowledge."
What on earth persuaded them that Sir Max merited such a prize?
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Well, clearly Stephen, it should have been yours.
you can vote for the Heath v Mastings confrontation as being the best ever clash on Question Time. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/question_time/3869985.stm
For once, Sir Max was definitely on the side of the angels
Oddly enough, when I worked alongside Max H it was the Standard's managing editor Jeremy Deedes (who insisted on wearing braces and barrister's striped trousers in the filth and squalor of the old Shoe Lane offices) who was sometimes compared with Widmerpool by colleagues on the Diary who were upbraided by him for late filing or overclaiming expenses.
Jeremy, who had none of his old dad's affability, moved to a suitably managerial role on the Telegraph. Max was a much more genial, though sometimes alarming, character-- more like a cross between Chips Lovell and Dicky Umfraville than Widmerpool.
The "award" is inept and ignorant.
But surely they got the wrong fleet street knight - they meant Simon Jenkins.
Gawain: I worked with Simon Jenkins too, and he is nothing like Widmerpool. Publishing reasoned arguments against US militarism isn't enough. You have to be pompous, philistine, insanely ambitious, a trend-chaser and unattractive to women. Simon fails the Widmerpool test on all counts.
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