- Prudence Harbinger
Prudence Harbinger is a fictional character with her own Sunday Telegraph column [ The column is within the Comment and Analysis section of the main section.] , created by
Laurence Marks andMaurice Gran in June 2007 to replaceAlan B'Stard as power within the (United Kingdom )Labour Party passed fromTony Blair toGordon Brown [ In a satirical tradition similar to that when Private Eye swapped from "The Secret Diary of John Major aged 46 and ¾ " to "St Albion Parish News" in May 1997] .Aged 41 at the column's inception in June 2007 [ [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/06/10/do1001.xml First Column] ] ,Harbinger is currently a career civil servant (Mandarin) who has previously been a journalist. A Londoner by birth, her "avant-garde" parents encouraged her to go to university in the north, where she lived in a squat and picketed for the N.U.M. [ 1984 to 85
National Union of Mineworkers ' strike] . Brief indiscretions aside [ Harbinger is a serial offender when it comes to singing TheSex Pistols ' "Anarchy in the UK" at innoportune moments.] Harbinger now lives alone in North London, her greatest challenge about to begin.......References
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