Prudence Harbinger
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Prudence Harbinger is a fictional character with her own Sunday Telegraph column[1], created by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran in June 2007 to replace Alan B'Stard as power within the (United Kingdom)Labour Party passed from Tony Blair to Gordon Brown[2].
Aged 41 at the column's inception in June 2007[3],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.[4]. Brief indiscretions aside[5] Harbinger now lives alone in North London, her greatest challenge about to begin.......
References
- ^ The column is within the Comment and Analysis section of the main section.
- ^ 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
- ^ First Column
- ^ 1984 to 85 National Union of Mineworkers' strike
- ^ Harbinger is a serial offender when it comes to singing The Sex Pistols ' Anarchy in the UK at innoportune moments.
