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An encounter with Tony Blair

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An encounter with Tony Blair
The excitement on Tony Blair’s face is obvious as he chats to Steve Scoles about London politics

TONY BLAIR was waiting for me in Downing Street. Me and some others. And actually he probably wasn’t waiting, he was probably doing stuff. He was Prime Minister after all. But we were due to chat, at his invitation, about the forthcoming Mayoral election in London. Labour’s first choice of candidate, Red Ken Livingstone, had gone unofficial and Labour had pushed Frank Dobson forward to make some semblance of a fight of it. Tony had arranged some face time with journalists as part of the Labour charm offensive and I, as London Metro’s man in the right place at the right time, had been selected to do the interview.  It was a bit of an honour: certainly the only world leader I would be talking to that day and it had fallen into my lap.

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Keeping it real with Debbie Harry at Camp Bestival 2011

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Keeping it real with Debbie Harry at Camp Bestival 2011
Debbie Harry at Camp Bestival, Dorset, August 2011

ON FRIDAY night Debbie Harry was going to have to work hard to impress me.
Since MarilynMonroe each decade has thrown up its iconic blondes: Twiggy in the Sixties, Madonna in the Eighties, Britney Spears in the Nineties. The Seventies gave us Ms Harry, frontwoman of the band Blondie.
Men of a certain age – no matter how much we disagree on a lot of stuff – will cease our petty squabbling at the mention of her name, draw in air through our teeth and nod in thoughtful agreement. The Unified Theory of Hotness. The combined heavyweight belts of hot. One glance from her dilated inky pupils could send anyone’s adolescence into meltdown.
On Friday night, however, she was up against it.

Alan Moore interview 2005

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Alan Moore interview 2005
Alan Moore outside Northampton Guildhall before his wedding

‘I’M BACK,” Alan Moore announces, throwing his wiry mane of hair out of his face and then carefully stroking it into place with ring-encrusted fingers.

“I haven’t gone… I’m back,” he reiterates with a gleeful smile that lights up the room.
He is explaining that his recent retirement from churning out hit comic scripts, does not mean that the Alan Moore who has won countless awards and a legion of fans for his writing is going to vanish from view.

Alan Moore interview 2003

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Alan Moore interview 2003
Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman at St Andrews Hospital in Northampton being photographed by a proper photographer

ALAN MOORE is not talking about his book The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

This might seem strange of the Northampton author because the Hollywood film version, starring no lesser mortal than Sean Connery, is on general release this week.
On Film 2003 Jonathan Ross salivated over it as one of the year’s biggest action spectaculars.
Wouldn’t any author be forgiven for stepping into the limelight for a moment, even if only to hold up a copy of the graphic novel that inspired the project and perhaps encourage a few sales?
Not Alan Moore.
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