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Fantastic Michael Crick episode of Panorama on Jeffrey Archer from 25 years ago. Really underscores just what a disservice it was to readers to use the lazy "led a colourful life" platitudes in many of the obituaries. youtu.be/z8E-aBGJ3tQ?...

youtu.beJeffrey Archer - A Life of Lies (2001)YouTube video by Culture Of England

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Robert Smith

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And I should rather partially say that @willoyd.bsky.social's obit in the pink pages was a very good read! www.ft.com/content/5235...

ft.comJeffrey Archer, author and politician, 1940-2026Best-selling novelist and Tory MP was defined both by his great successes and his headline-grabbing scandals

Robert Smith

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Quite the roll call of dishonour documented by the late, great Paul Foot in the Eye too bsky.app/profile/priv...

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Archer’s resignation from the London mayoral race after it was revealed he lied in court was the thing that got Paul Foot up from his sickbed and contributing again, having first started chronicling Archer’s lies and misdemeanours in 1969. From the Private Eye archive. Issue 992, December 1999.