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Londoner's Diary

December 14, 2023

"Londoner's Diary" is a gossip column in the London Evening Standard. Since 1916 the column has provided readers with witty and mischievous insights into high society; from political scandals and literary feuds to the backstage gossip at fashion parties and film premieres. Charles Wintour, who edited the Standard throughout the sixties, once declared: "To go to a decent London dinner party without having read the Diary would be to go out unprepared for proper conversation."[2]

Londoner's Diary
EditorRobbie Griffiths
CategoriesSociety, politics, arts, fashion, theatre, gossip
FrequencyDaily
Circulation900,000[1]
PublisherEvening Standard
First issue11 April 1916
Based inLondon
WebsiteLondoner's Diary

History edit

"Londoner's Diary" first appeared on 11 April 1916. Arthur Mann, the Standard's editor at the time, announced that it would consist of "three columns written daily by gentlemen for gentlemen" with a distinctive slant on politics, personalities and London based stories.[3] The section was the first of its kind; as early as 1917 it was noted that "the best tribute to 'A Londoner's Diary' is the fact that it now has its counterpart in the other penny evening papers in London."[4]

Lord Beaverbrook edit

In 1923, the Evening Standard was acquired by Lord Beaverbrook, the wildly influential Canadian press baron who was gleefully parodied as the ruthless Lord Monomark in Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies and Stephen Fry's film adaptation Bright Young Things.[5]

With London still reeling from the horrors of the First World War, Beaverbrook was the first proprietor on Fleet Street to understand how eager his readers were to be entertained by glittering gossip.

 
Press baron and Standard proprietor Lord Beaverbrook

However, he saw "Londoner's Diary" as more than just a means of profitably popularising the paper. Beaverbrook "regarded the nightly diary page in the Evening Standard as his own personal fiefdom … an armoury from which he could seize a weapon at will; bludgeon, cudgel and rapier lay at his disposal as he sought to fight his way to ever greater heights of power and influence in between-the-wars Britain."[6]

The Diary provided a mischievous platform for political gossip and upper crust scandal, regaling readers with titbits on the private lives of London's high society: their excesses, their pets and their dinner-parties – but never their love affairs.

John Junor – who edited the Sunday Express, another of Beaverbrook's papers – once pithily summarised his proprietor's opinion of sex in gossip columns. "All fucking is private", he told a new reporter, "Always remember that."[7]

Pre-War edit

An extraordinary number of cultural and literary figures sharpened their teeth on the pages of the Diary. Before the Second World War, contributors to the column included Harold Nicolson, John Betjeman,[8] Randolph Churchill, Malcolm Muggeridge and Peter Fleming, brother of the 007 novelist Ian.[9]

Gentlemen first and journalists second, not all of them had the makings of a good diarist. A young John Betjeman once came bursting into the editor's office in a state of great excitement. "Please, Sir, I think I've got one of those scoop things!" cried the future poet laureate. "Oh really", replied his editor, "and how do you know it's a scoop?" "Well, Sir, I've rung the Evening News and they haven't got it."[10]

Other diarists were a little more serious about the task in hand and veteran Daily Mirror journalist Donald Zec recalled being in a certain amount of awe when dropping by the Diary as a rookie reporter. "They generally wore horn-rimmed spectacles, hairy tweed jackets and corduroys and called each other 'Old Boy' a lot" wrote Zec. "Just to hover in the room where they worked – or plotted – was instructive."[11]

In 1928 the Diary's editor was Robert Bruce Lockhart, a former spy known for his hard-drinking and semi-debauched lifestyle, who would later become a best-selling author with his Memoirs of a British Agent (1932). Lockhart had been Britain's first spy in Moscow and, despite having been caught and exchanged for a Soviet agent, remained on unusually cordial terms with the Russian Embassy in London, from whom he received an annual gift of caviar.[12]

Harold Nicolson edit

It was Lockhart who – having been promoted to a more wide-ranging role by Beaverbrook – suggested that his friend the aristocrat, ex-diplomat and writer Harold Nicolson might be the ideal man to take over the Diary.[13]

To The Standard editors, the gregarious, urbane Nicolson seemed perfect for the position. He was a brilliant raconteur with a lively sense of irony and humour, who was very much at home in social London. A member of several of the capital’s best clubs, he loved attending the endless dinner parties and other social gatherings to which he was invited. Even when parties were dull, he still had fun. 'It is so odd. I enjoyed it,' he wrote in his diary after one such party. 'I always enjoy everything. That is dreadful. I must pull myself together and be bored for once.'[14]

But the easy pleasure that Nicolson took in socialising for its own sake quickly evaporated when forced to attend festivities in search of stories. "Work fruitlessly, superficially, futilely upon the Londoner’s Diary" he wrote in his private journal. "The difficulty is that the only news I get is from friends and that is just the news that I can't publish."[15]

Although the money was good, the aristocratic Nicolson disapproved of his shamelessly power-hungry proprietor and found Fleet Street "culturally degrading".[16] His superior attitude did not go unnoticed. "Harold’s tastes are not the public's tastes", lamented Lockhart. "He is all too precious." Beaverbrook however, did not agree. In June 1931, the newspaper magnate offered Nicolson the editorship of the entire paper. Instead of accepting, Nicolson took the opportunity to jump ship and quit.[17]

Randolph Churchill edit

 
Diary editor Randolph Churchill, photographed by Cecil Beaton

Randolph Churchill, son of Winston, had an unusually checkered relationship with the gossip pages. Eager to be seen as one of London's glamorous 'Bright Young Things', in May 1932 he personally telephoned the Diary to provide them with advance details of his 21st birthday and its glittering society guest list.[18] But he flew into a rage with Beaverbrook when another of the press baron's papers, the Daily Express, singled him out in a story on the sons of great men, which sneeringly observed that "major fathers as a rule breed minor sons, so our little London peacocks had better tone down their fine feathers."[19] "The function of the gossip writer", wrote Randolph, "is not among those which commend themselves mostly highly to my generation".[20]

A few years later the young Churchill performed an amusing about turn, becoming editor of Londoner's Diary and one of the best-paid gossip columnists on Fleet Street. In 1938, during the Munich Crisis, he was briefly called up by the Army and asked his father if he would mind filling in for him on the paper. This is how, improbably, the 64-year-old Winston Churchill – just two years before he would assume the role of Britain's wartime Prime Minister – became editor of the Londoner's Diary for a week, filing stories about the political career of Lord Longford and shooting at Balmoral with the King.[21]

Post-War edit

In 1946 Beaverbrook handed the Diary to Tudor Jenkins, who did much to shape the column's short, informative style. "No fine writing please", he would instruct his staff at the Standard's "raffish and noisy" offices off Fleet Street. His stance created a section that was "sometimes unreliable, occasionally incomprehensible, but always lively".[22]

After nearly fifteen years on the column he was replaced by the precocious 27-year-old Nicholas Tomalin, who would go on to become a pioneering war journalist. Lauded by Beaverbrook, his "dynamic and energetic" style reflected the excitement of a sixties London that was just starting to swing.[23]

In 1962, Tomalin was succeeded by Donald Edgar, a battle-hardened journalist who had spent most of the war in a prisoner of war camp and returned to work for the Daily Express and then the Standard as a roving reporter, usually in war-torn areas of the globe. He covered the Cyprus troubles and got to know Archbishop Makarios well. Tomalin's elevation to editor of the Diary came as something of a surprise to him, but he soon found that he enjoyed the challenge. He always kept the Chelsea Flower Show as an assignment for himself, and was able to write not only about the people who visited the show, but about the flowers and gardens themselves.

Tomalin had a keen eye for talent, bringing many future Fleet Street stars onto the column, from Mary Kenny and Paul Callan to Magnus Linklater and future Standard editor Max Hastings. The drawling "Old Boy" attitude that Donald Zec had observed thirty years earlier was still very much alive; Kenny recalls that when she arrived "not only was I the only girl on the column, I was [apart from Max Hastings] the only person who hadn't been to Eton."[24]

He was succeeded in 1965 by the debonair Roger Berthoud, who was already known to have a gift for extracting high-class gossip. In the summer of 1963, while reporting for the Standard from Paris, he discovered that General de Gaulle had been avidly following the Profumo affair in the British newspapers, turning to an Elysée aide to remark: "That will teach the English to try and behave like Frenchmen."[25]

Recent years edit

Sarah Sands became the Diary's first female editor in the late 1980s. After Sands, Rory Knight Bruce, who had come from The Spectator, edited the Diary in the 1990s, giving a start to many of today's leading journalists and authors, including Peter Bradshaw, Sam Leith, James Hanning, Vincent Graff, Nick Bryant, Philip Kerr, Imogen Lycett Green and Robert Tewdr Moss.

Knight Bruce broke many stories at a time when the Evening Standard was selling almost 700,000 copies a day, often changing the page in its entirety for the noon edition. He taught the team valuable lessons as Sam Leith discovered, when shifting on the column in his gap year. The first was 'the editor is always right'. "As he rewrote one of my stories, I pointed out a grammatical error he had introduced. Pause. 'Look, Leith,' he spat, 'if you want to be an academic, fuck off to Oxford. If you want to be a journalist shut up and do what I say.'"[26]

Knight Bruce was also at this time the joint master of a pack of foxhounds in Shropshire. His eccentric lifestyle was allegedly the inspiration for Martin Amis's character Rory Plantagenet in his novel The Information.[27]

In 1998, Sebastian Shakespeare took over the column, entertaining Londoners for the next fifteen years, through four editors and three prime ministers. After consecutively winning Editorial Intelligence's 'Diary of the Year' award in 2009 and 2010,[28] he remarked:

"Diarists pride themselves on being insiders. They get access to all the best parties while the photographers and news reporters are left on the doorstep. And we also gently nibble the hand that feeds us canapés... Mischief is our mission and mockery is our weapon. In this age of spin, diarists have never been more important."[29]

Shakespeare departed in December 2013, and the column was then edited by Other Club founder Joy Lo Dico.[30][31] Ayesha Hazarika was appointed the column's editor in July 2019.[32]

Editors edit

Quotes edit

"The Diary and its team of clever young writers were in a way Beaverbrook's spies, sending out signals to the world about the trivial details of great or celebrated people".

– A. N. Wilson, Betjeman (2007)

"The Londoner's Diary should, on the whole, try to avoid treating its readers like ignorant idiots. An innocuous paragraph about Henry Moore is ruined today by the patronising remark: 'Moore is now regarded as probably the greatest sculptor in the West'."[33]

– Charles Wintour, editor of the Evening Standard, letter to the editor of Londoner's Diary (1974)

"The Londoner's Diary was always the central feature of the paper, a touch of class in something of a workaday wilderness ... Its readers have always included both the humble and the mighty, for the Standard circulates widely through the corridors of power."

– Roger Wilkes, Scandal: A Scurrilous History of Gossip (2002)

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Greenslade, Roy (9 January 2014). "The Guardian". Retrieved May 3, 2014.
  2. ^ "The Spectator". Retrieved May 3, 2014.
  3. ^ . Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2014-06-07.
  4. ^ "The Street of Ink". Retrieved May 3, 2014.
  5. ^ Waugh, Evelyn. Vile Bodies, "Note on Names", Penguin, 2012
  6. ^ Wilkes, Roger. Scandal: A Scurrilous History of Gossip, Atlantic, 2002, p. 160
  7. ^ Wilkes, 2002, p. 175
  8. ^ Wilson, A. N. The Evening Standard, 19 June 2006
  9. ^ Wilson, A. N., Betjeman, Arrow, 2007
  10. ^ "Evening Standard". 5 April 2012.
  11. ^ Zec, Donald. "Fiddlin' my way to Fleet Street", British Journalism Review, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2000
  12. ^ Wilkes, 2002, p. 162
  13. ^ Wilkes, 2002, p. 165
  14. ^ Olson, Lynne, Troublesome Young Men: The Churchill Conspiracy Of 1940, Bloomsbury, 2008
  15. ^ . Elborough, Travis and Rennison, Nick, A London Year: 365 Days of City Life in Diaries, Journals and Letters, Frances Lincoln, 2013
  16. ^ Cannadin, Roger. Aspects of Aristocracy: Grandeur and Decline in Modern Britain, Yale, 1994
  17. ^ Wilkes, 2002, p. 165
  18. ^ Pearson, John, The Private Lives of Winston Churchill, Simon & Schuster, 1991
  19. ^ Wilkes, 2002, p. 149
  20. ^ Wilkes, 2002, p. 150
  21. ^ "New Statesman".
  22. ^ Smith, Bedell, Reflected Glory. The Life of Pamela Churchill Harriman, Simon and Schuster, 1996
  23. ^ Wilkes, 2002, p. 168
  24. ^ "The Independent". Independent.co.uk. 20 February 1996.
  25. ^ "The Times".
  26. ^ Bradshaw, Peter (10 September 2008). "The Guardian".
  27. ^ . Archived from the original on 2015-09-30. Retrieved 2014-05-04.
  28. ^ "Editorial Intelligence".
  29. ^ (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-01-08. Retrieved 2014-05-04.
  30. ^ "Features Desk".
  31. ^ . Archived from the original on 2014-05-08. Retrieved 2014-05-04.
  32. ^ "Ayesha Hazarika named new editor of Evening Standard's The Londoner". London Evening Standard. 19 July 2019. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  33. ^ "The Spectator". Retrieved May 3, 2014.

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Londoner s Diary is a gossip column in the London Evening Standard Since 1916 the column has provided readers with witty and mischievous insights into high society from political scandals and literary feuds to the backstage gossip at fashion parties and film premieres Charles Wintour who edited the Standard throughout the sixties once declared To go to a decent London dinner party without having read the Diary would be to go out unprepared for proper conversation 2 Londoner s DiaryEditorRobbie GriffithsCategoriesSociety politics arts fashion theatre gossipFrequencyDailyCirculation900 000 1 PublisherEvening StandardFirst issue11 April 1916Based inLondonWebsiteLondoner s Diary Contents 1 History 1 1 Lord Beaverbrook 1 2 Pre War 1 3 Harold Nicolson 1 4 Randolph Churchill 1 5 Post War 1 6 Recent years 2 Editors 3 Quotes 4 See also 5 References 6 External linksHistory edit Londoner s Diary first appeared on 11 April 1916 Arthur Mann the Standard s editor at the time announced that it would consist of three columns written daily by gentlemen for gentlemen with a distinctive slant on politics personalities and London based stories 3 The section was the first of its kind as early as 1917 it was noted that the best tribute to A Londoner s Diary is the fact that it now has its counterpart in the other penny evening papers in London 4 Lord Beaverbrook edit In 1923 the Evening Standard was acquired by Lord Beaverbrook the wildly influential Canadian press baron who was gleefully parodied as the ruthless Lord Monomark in Evelyn Waugh s Vile Bodies and Stephen Fry s film adaptation Bright Young Things 5 With London still reeling from the horrors of the First World War Beaverbrook was the first proprietor on Fleet Street to understand how eager his readers were to be entertained by glittering gossip nbsp Press baron and Standard proprietor Lord Beaverbrook However he saw Londoner s Diary as more than just a means of profitably popularising the paper Beaverbrook regarded the nightly diary page in the Evening Standard as his own personal fiefdom an armoury from which he could seize a weapon at will bludgeon cudgel and rapier lay at his disposal as he sought to fight his way to ever greater heights of power and influence in between the wars Britain 6 The Diary provided a mischievous platform for political gossip and upper crust scandal regaling readers with titbits on the private lives of London s high society their excesses their pets and their dinner parties but never their love affairs John Junor who edited the Sunday Express another of Beaverbrook s papers once pithily summarised his proprietor s opinion of sex in gossip columns All fucking is private he told a new reporter Always remember that 7 Pre War edit An extraordinary number of cultural and literary figures sharpened their teeth on the pages of the Diary Before the Second World War contributors to the column included Harold Nicolson John Betjeman 8 Randolph Churchill Malcolm Muggeridge and Peter Fleming brother of the 007 novelist Ian 9 Gentlemen first and journalists second not all of them had the makings of a good diarist A young John Betjeman once came bursting into the editor s office in a state of great excitement Please Sir I think I ve got one of those scoop things cried the future poet laureate Oh really replied his editor and how do you know it s a scoop Well Sir I ve rung the Evening News and they haven t got it 10 Other diarists were a little more serious about the task in hand and veteran Daily Mirror journalist Donald Zec recalled being in a certain amount of awe when dropping by the Diary as a rookie reporter They generally wore horn rimmed spectacles hairy tweed jackets and corduroys and called each other Old Boy a lot wrote Zec Just to hover in the room where they worked or plotted was instructive 11 In 1928 the Diary s editor was Robert Bruce Lockhart a former spy known for his hard drinking and semi debauched lifestyle who would later become a best selling author with his Memoirs of a British Agent 1932 Lockhart had been Britain s first spy in Moscow and despite having been caught and exchanged for a Soviet agent remained on unusually cordial terms with the Russian Embassy in London from whom he received an annual gift of caviar 12 Harold Nicolson edit It was Lockhart who having been promoted to a more wide ranging role by Beaverbrook suggested that his friend the aristocrat ex diplomat and writer Harold Nicolson might be the ideal man to take over the Diary 13 To The Standard editors the gregarious urbane Nicolson seemed perfect for the position He was a brilliant raconteur with a lively sense of irony and humour who was very much at home in social London A member of several of the capital s best clubs he loved attending the endless dinner parties and other social gatherings to which he was invited Even when parties were dull he still had fun It is so odd I enjoyed it he wrote in his diary after one such party I always enjoy everything That is dreadful I must pull myself together and be bored for once 14 But the easy pleasure that Nicolson took in socialising for its own sake quickly evaporated when forced to attend festivities in search of stories Work fruitlessly superficially futilely upon the Londoner s Diary he wrote in his private journal The difficulty is that the only news I get is from friends and that is just the news that I can t publish 15 Although the money was good the aristocratic Nicolson disapproved of his shamelessly power hungry proprietor and found Fleet Street culturally degrading 16 His superior attitude did not go unnoticed Harold s tastes are not the public s tastes lamented Lockhart He is all too precious Beaverbrook however did not agree In June 1931 the newspaper magnate offered Nicolson the editorship of the entire paper Instead of accepting Nicolson took the opportunity to jump ship and quit 17 Randolph Churchill edit nbsp Diary editor Randolph Churchill photographed by Cecil Beaton Randolph Churchill son of Winston had an unusually checkered relationship with the gossip pages Eager to be seen as one of London s glamorous Bright Young Things in May 1932 he personally telephoned the Diary to provide them with advance details of his 21st birthday and its glittering society guest list 18 But he flew into a rage with Beaverbrook when another of the press baron s papers the Daily Express singled him out in a story on the sons of great men which sneeringly observed that major fathers as a rule breed minor sons so our little London peacocks had better tone down their fine feathers 19 The function of the gossip writer wrote Randolph is not among those which commend themselves mostly highly to my generation 20 A few years later the young Churchill performed an amusing about turn becoming editor of Londoner s Diary and one of the best paid gossip columnists on Fleet Street In 1938 during the Munich Crisis he was briefly called up by the Army and asked his father if he would mind filling in for him on the paper This is how improbably the 64 year old Winston Churchill just two years before he would assume the role of Britain s wartime Prime Minister became editor of the Londoner s Diary for a week filing stories about the political career of Lord Longford and shooting at Balmoral with the King 21 Post War edit In 1946 Beaverbrook handed the Diary to Tudor Jenkins who did much to shape the column s short informative style No fine writing please he would instruct his staff at the Standard s raffish and noisy offices off Fleet Street His stance created a section that was sometimes unreliable occasionally incomprehensible but always lively 22 After nearly fifteen years on the column he was replaced by the precocious 27 year old Nicholas Tomalin who would go on to become a pioneering war journalist Lauded by Beaverbrook his dynamic and energetic style reflected the excitement of a sixties London that was just starting to swing 23 In 1962 Tomalin was succeeded by Donald Edgar a battle hardened journalist who had spent most of the war in a prisoner of war camp and returned to work for the Daily Express and then the Standard as a roving reporter usually in war torn areas of the globe He covered the Cyprus troubles and got to know Archbishop Makarios well Tomalin s elevation to editor of the Diary came as something of a surprise to him but he soon found that he enjoyed the challenge He always kept the Chelsea Flower Show as an assignment for himself and was able to write not only about the people who visited the show but about the flowers and gardens themselves Tomalin had a keen eye for talent bringing many future Fleet Street stars onto the column from Mary Kenny and Paul Callan to Magnus Linklater and future Standard editor Max Hastings The drawling Old Boy attitude that Donald Zec had observed thirty years earlier was still very much alive Kenny recalls that when she arrived not only was I the only girl on the column I was apart from Max Hastings the only person who hadn t been to Eton 24 He was succeeded in 1965 by the debonair Roger Berthoud who was already known to have a gift for extracting high class gossip In the summer of 1963 while reporting for the Standard from Paris he discovered that General de Gaulle had been avidly following the Profumo affair in the British newspapers turning to an Elysee aide to remark That will teach the English to try and behave like Frenchmen 25 Recent years edit Sarah Sands became the Diary s first female editor in the late 1980s After Sands Rory Knight Bruce who had come from The Spectator edited the Diary in the 1990s giving a start to many of today s leading journalists and authors including Peter Bradshaw Sam Leith James Hanning Vincent Graff Nick Bryant Philip Kerr Imogen Lycett Green and Robert Tewdr Moss Knight Bruce broke many stories at a time when the Evening Standard was selling almost 700 000 copies a day often changing the page in its entirety for the noon edition He taught the team valuable lessons as Sam Leith discovered when shifting on the column in his gap year The first was the editor is always right As he rewrote one of my stories I pointed out a grammatical error he had introduced Pause Look Leith he spat if you want to be an academic fuck off to Oxford If you want to be a journalist shut up and do what I say 26 Knight Bruce was also at this time the joint master of a pack of foxhounds in Shropshire His eccentric lifestyle was allegedly the inspiration for Martin Amis s character Rory Plantagenet in his novel The Information 27 In 1998 Sebastian Shakespeare took over the column entertaining Londoners for the next fifteen years through four editors and three prime ministers After consecutively winning Editorial Intelligence s Diary of the Year award in 2009 and 2010 28 he remarked Diarists pride themselves on being insiders They get access to all the best parties while the photographers and news reporters are left on the doorstep And we also gently nibble the hand that feeds us canapes Mischief is our mission and mockery is our weapon In this age of spin diarists have never been more important 29 Shakespeare departed in December 2013 and the column was then edited by Other Club founder Joy Lo Dico 30 31 Ayesha Hazarika was appointed the column s editor in July 2019 32 Editors editRobert Bruce Lockhart 1928 Harold Nicolson 1930 Randolph Churchill 1938 Tudor Jenkins 1946 Nicholas Tomalin 1960 Donald Edgar 1962 Roger Berthoud 1965 Magnus Linklater 1967 Paul Callan 1969 Jeremy Deedes 1971 Max Hastings 1976 Adrian Woodhouse 1978 Geoffrey Wheatcroft 1985 Richard Addis 1986 Sarah Sands 1988 Rory Knight Bruce 1990 Susannah Herbert 1995 Sebastian Shakespeare 1998 Joy Lo Dico 2014 Charlotte Edwardes 2018 Ayesha Hazarika 2019 Robbie Smith 2020 Robbie Griffiths 2022 Ethan Croft 2023 Quotes edit The Diary and its team of clever young writers were in a way Beaverbrook s spies sending out signals to the world about the trivial details of great or celebrated people A N Wilson Betjeman 2007 The Londoner s Diary should on the whole try to avoid treating its readers like ignorant idiots An innocuous paragraph about Henry Moore is ruined today by the patronising remark Moore is now regarded as probably the greatest sculptor in the West 33 Charles Wintour editor of the Evening Standard letter to the editor of Londoner s Diary 1974 The Londoner s Diary was always the central feature of the paper a touch of class in something of a workaday wilderness Its readers have always included both the humble and the mighty for the Standard circulates widely through the corridors of power Roger Wilkes Scandal A Scurrilous History of Gossip 2002 See also editEvening StandardReferences edit Greenslade Roy 9 January 2014 The Guardian Retrieved May 3 2014 The Spectator Retrieved May 3 2014 Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards Archived from the original on 2015 04 02 Retrieved 2014 06 07 The Street of Ink Retrieved May 3 2014 Waugh Evelyn Vile Bodies Note on Names Penguin 2012 Wilkes Roger Scandal A Scurrilous History of Gossip Atlantic 2002 p 160 Wilkes 2002 p 175 Wilson A N The Evening Standard 19 June 2006 Wilson A N Betjeman Arrow 2007 Evening Standard 5 April 2012 Zec Donald Fiddlin my way to Fleet Street British Journalism Review Vol 11 No 1 2000 Wilkes 2002 p 162 Wilkes 2002 p 165 Olson Lynne Troublesome Young Men The Churchill Conspiracy Of 1940 Bloomsbury 2008 Elborough Travis and Rennison Nick A London Year 365 Days of City Life in Diaries Journals and Letters Frances Lincoln 2013 Cannadin Roger Aspects of Aristocracy Grandeur and Decline in Modern Britain Yale 1994 Wilkes 2002 p 165 Pearson John The Private Lives of Winston Churchill Simon amp Schuster 1991 Wilkes 2002 p 149 Wilkes 2002 p 150 New Statesman Smith Bedell Reflected Glory The Life of Pamela Churchill Harriman Simon and Schuster 1996 Wilkes 2002 p 168 The Independent Independent co uk 20 February 1996 The Times Bradshaw Peter 10 September 2008 The Guardian Press Gazette Archived from the original on 2015 09 30 Retrieved 2014 05 04 Editorial Intelligence Editorial Intelligence PDF Archived from the original PDF on 2007 01 08 Retrieved 2014 05 04 Features Desk Other Club Archived from the original on 2014 05 08 Retrieved 2014 05 04 Ayesha Hazarika named new editor of Evening Standard s The Londoner London Evening Standard 19 July 2019 Retrieved 27 September 2019 The Spectator Retrieved May 3 2014 External links editEvening Standard Londoner s Diary Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Londoner 27s Diary amp oldid 1183046862, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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