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Greg Barker: the lord's work

The Slow Newscast

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Parker's 'Swagger Portrait'

Parker is more often associated with cameron's rise to power and his efforts to modernize the tory party. Yet he wasn't an obvious member of cameron's so called chamocracy. He went to state schools on england's south coast, switching for his last two years to private school at lancing college. It was a picture of the young establishment that barker felt he had to fit into to continue his rise. No, this is what we call a swagger portrait. I'm the art critic of the observer newspaper.

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