With the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s search for a Nancy and an Oliver generating acres of newsprint locally and in the London press, ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Newsline has an interesting take on it tonight. Julie McCullough interviews the Executive Minister who once starred as the Artful Dodger. Here's a clue: he now considers himself at home somewhere different to where he used to reside politically.
And my colleague Gareth Gordon gets a mention too, in relation to his cameo role as a Bow Street Runner.
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It is interesting to note Charles Dickens describes the Artful Dodger as -
He was a snub-nosed, flat-browed, common-faced boy enough; and as dirty a juvenile as one would wish to see; but he had about him all the airs and manners of a man. He was short of his age: with rather bow-legs, and little, sharp, ugly eyes. His hat was stuck on the top of his head so lightly, that it threatened to fall off every moment--and would have done so, very often, if the wearer had not had a knack of every now and then giving his head a sudden twitch, which brought it back to its old place again. He wore a man's coat, which reached nearly to his heels. He had turned the cuffs back, half-way up his arm, to get his hands out of the sleeves: apparently with the ultimated view of thrusting them into the pockets of his corduroy trousers; for there he kept them. He was, altogether, as roystering and swaggering a young gentleman as ever stood four feet six, or something less, in the bluchers.
Is this Jeffrey Donaldson?
Dickens was a prophet.