{"id":575511,"date":"2025-11-17T05:07:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T05:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/575511\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T05:07:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T05:07:20","slug":"rachel-cooke-in-her-words-a-few-highlights-from-25-years-of-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/575511\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Cooke \u2013 in her words: a few highlights from 25 years of writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p role=\"text\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"is_Paragraph font_caslonIonic _dsp-inline _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0px _ff-f-family _fw-f-weight-3048 _fs-f-size-18 _lh-f-lineHeigh3500605 _col-c-grey_600 _select-auto _ws-normal\">In the kitchen of her rambling Devonshire home, Sasha Swire, whose mischievously indiscreet political diaries are published this week, appears to be suffering from a bad case of the writerly equivalent of buyer\u2019s remorse. Round and round the table she goes, as busy as one of her bees, pausing only occasionally to fling open the door of her Aga, into which she then carefully inserts her bum (I think the idea is to warm it up, but given that the weather is fine today, perhaps it\u2019s more a matter of comfort). \u201cOh, please don\u2019t put that in,\u201d she yelps at one point, my having brought up a particularly choice entry from 2012, in which Michael Heseltine pretends, at a private dinner, that the queen has asked him to form a government. But it\u2019s in your book, I say: all the world will be able to read it soon. She performs another frantic circuit of the room. \u201cOh, I beg you. Please don\u2019t write about that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the kitchen of her rambling Devonshire home, Sasha Swire, whose mischievously indiscreet political diaries are published this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[3444,802,748,2766,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,466,21903,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-575511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-brexit","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-culture","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-european-union","16":"tag-great-britain","17":"tag-interviews","18":"tag-journalism","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115563308309301629","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}