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How Journalism Works: Richard Littlejohn, Tim Walker And A Mike Yarwood Impression
HOW journalism works, as illustrated by Richard Littlejohn and an impressionist:
Tim Walker, 17 Apr 2011 – Daily Telegraph:
Just as Mike Yarwood, an acclaimed impersonator of Harold Wilson in his day, never really appeared to get over Margaret Thatcher’s election as prime minister, Rory Bremner is suffering at the hands of the Coalition…
Happily, however, he has a stage tour coming up, but Andrew Lansley, the health secretary who has been much in the news recently, looks unlikely to be included among the impersonations. “I just spent the last three weeks perfecting Lansley and that looks like it was a complete waste of time,” he sighs. “In fact I’m going to his leaving party now. It’s a surprise party – well, it’s a surprise for him anyway.”
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