Old Priorians - Denis MacShane, Chris Patten, Andy Serkis, Douglas Murray, Labi Siffre, Julian Clary, Peter Ackroyd, Patrick Baty (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Denis MacShane, Chris Patten, Andy Serkis, Douglas Murray, Labi Siffre, Julian Clary, Peter Ackroyd, Patrick Baty, Bernard Orchard, Tony McWalter, Declan Donnellan, Reginald C. Fuller, Denis O'Regan, Peter Hennessy, Joe Simpson, Colin MacCabe, John Hooper, Christopher Caudwell, Damian Hopley, Howard French, Iain Softley, Jonathan Glancey, Keith Tomlins. Excerpt: Denis MacShane (born 21 May 1948) is a British politician, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rotherham since the 1994 by-election and served as the Minister for Europe from 2002 until 2005, as well as being a current Policy Council member for Labour Friends of Israel. On 14 October 2010, it was announced that the Parliamentary Labour Party had withdrawn the whip from MacShane while he is under criminal investigation in respect of his expenses claims. MacShane was born as Denis Matyjaszek, to an Irish mother, Isobel MacShane, and her Polish husband, Jan Matyjaszek, who had fought in the Second World War and remained in exile after it, taking British nationality in 1950. MacShane was educated at St Benedict's School in Ealing and read history at Merton College, Oxford where he wrote for the Cherwell student newspaper. However, in retaliation for an article attacking the rival publication Isis, MacShane was stripped naked, covered with pink paint and left in a remote location. From 1975 to 1981 MacShane had a relationship with broadcaster Carol Barnes. Their daughter Clare Barnes died in March 2004 after her parachute failed to open on her 200th skydiving jump in Australia. MacShane married Polish born Liliana Klaptocz in 1983, with the relationship only lasting a few years. In 1987, he then married Nathalie Pham, an interpreter of French-Vietnamese origin; they have a son and three daughters. They divorced in 2003. His relationship with writer Joa...