Jenny Diski

Diary - Jenny Diski

• 23 June 2003

I won a prize - £1,000 and a silver pen - and I was really grouchy. I suffered, my publisher suffered, the cats suffered. Very few people can do ingratitude like I can

Politics

You couldn't make it up

• 11 June 2001

The Campaign - Fake smiles, balloons and magic wands: the stage-managed banalities of the campaign proved that fact is more trite than fiction

Politics

A floating voter meets her destiny

• 04 June 2001

Election 2001 - Jack Straw called off a walkabout, the Tories wouldn't talk, and the Socialist Alliance failed to deliver a promised stunt. Jenny Diskifaced an awful realisation

Politics

From the sofa, it looks pretty bad

• 21 May 2001

Election 2001 - Jenny Diski, set to abstain for the first time in her life, thinks she is not so much apathetic as sullen

What am I doing, all quiet and free and in control, moving to a strange town in a draughty fen for a man?

• 28 August 2000