GIVE ME TEN SECONDS
by John Sergeant
Macmillan, £20, pp. 400, ISBN 0333904494
A central contention of Robin Oakley's engaging memoir of his time as a political journalist is that the media has become too grand for its own good. It is therefore a most satisfying irony that his book has been given more air time than the memoirs of most retired cabinet ministers. The same applies to the autobiography of Oakley's longstanding rival, John Sergeant of ITN. Both works have been serialised in the Sunday supplements and given the kind of lavish promotion even quite successful politicians never get.
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