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The political lives of Walter Mitty

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1 February 2014

9:00 AM

1 February 2014

9:00 AM

The political life of Walter Mitty

Nigel Farage attacked the ‘Walter Mittys’ in his own party. A few of the many uses of James Thurber’s daydreaming character in politics:
— In 2003 Tony Blair’s official spokesman Tom Kelly described the late government weapons scientist Dr David Kelly as a Walter Mitty. He was later forced to apologise.

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