Re: Miliband gossip
On Jul 6, 2007, at 7:53 AM, Michael Smith wrote:
And the black bra and no knickers does sound rather fetching,
actually — doesn’t it?
Thoroughly. Hard to argue with, really.
I met David M years ago when his brother Edward - then universally
known as “Eddie” - was a Nation intern. David seemed like an slick &
ambitious centrist even in those days, a sharp contrast with Eddie,
who was more radical, a bit neurotically tortured, and quite
charming. Eddie stayed in New York for a year or so after his
internship, and I used to hang out with him some. My first wife took
an exercise class with their mother’s sister, who hooked me up with
Verso through Ellen Wood. That’s how I came to write Wall Street.
Ellen asked if I could write a book “on how awful capitalism is.” I
concocted Wall Street with Verso’s then-editor, Colin Robinson. Eddie
worked for Gordon Brown at the Treasury, and now has some job with
the cabinet.
Doug