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Dear Customer: You're fired. Beat it. Scram. GFY. We're way too big for your two-bit account, especially since you never stop complaining about...
...Smeaton's deeds made him an action hero; his words have made him a comic one. His interviews are delivered in such a distinct Scottish idiom and accent that one Australian network provided subtitles. His most oft-quoted statements include this account of his tussle with the terrorist: "Me and other folk were just tryin' tae get the boot in and some other guy banjoed [punched] him." And this warning to future terrorists: "You're nae hitting the polis [police], mate, there's nae chance... Glasgow doesnae accept this; if you come tae Glasgow, we'll set about...
...high-seriousness with which Smeaton fielded reporters' earnest questions on June 30, the day of the attack, that has truly elevated him to comic status. With the faux-authority of his orange worker's vest, he gives an account full of dramatic pauses and the inflated diction of a policeman giving evidence: "I saw a man egress the vehicle," he explained to one reporter. In the event's aftermath, Smeaton's unblinking gravitas has become pure British satire - the David Brent of airport security...
...journalist to join Blair's team in opposition in 1994 until his resignation four years ago. Edited down from over 2 million words to 350,000 and with passages excised that Campbell feared could breach the Official Secrets Act or undermine Gordon Brown's government (Campbell admits to pruning accounts of the TB-GBs, as the bitter spats between the former and current Premier were known), the diaries are still the most substantial inside account yet to emerge from Blair's inner circle. Some of Campbell's revelations are unexpected. Royal biographers have mined for new material on Princess Diana...
...diaries contain a firsthand account of Blair's response to the terror attacks of 9/11 and a detailed narrative of the negotiations leading to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, the foundation of this year's historic settlement in Northern Ireland that saw old enemies enter into government together. There's even a fair bit of Labour's dirty washing: its internal struggles as it moved towards the center, and a leader, glimpsed here behind the scenes, often impressive but sometimes fretful and indecisive...