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In defence of gossip: why we should bring back the newspaper diary column

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We live in earnest times – so there’s all the more need for mischievous tittle-tattle, argues the author of a new book on the secrets of power

In 2009, the BBC wondered whether the diary column was dying. The alleged nail in the coffin was the closure of People, the Times diary, making the paper the only national without a dedicated tittle-tattle section.

 

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Now the whole damn newspaper is gossip

In that case, the main and metro sections will only contain ads

'It was also a diary which got the best quote of the lot, namely General De Gaulle disdainfully telling an aide at the Elysée: “That will teach the English to try and behave like Frenchmen.”' Délicieux.

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