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Article: AITKEN'S PITIFUL PORRIDGE ODES; Jailed Tory thinks he's Oscar Wilde.(News)
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- Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
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- June 25, 1999
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JAILBIRD Jonathan Aitken has penned a self-pitying poem from his prison cell.
The disgraced former Tory cabinet minister tried to emulate Oscar Wilde's famous ode Ballad of Reading Jail.
Aitken, who is serving 18 months for perjury after lying during a libel court case, titled his effort A Ballad of Belmarsh Gaol.
The poem, sent by Aitken to The Spectator magazine, suggests the former MP is deeply depressed.
It describes life in Belmarsh with its "towers of steel and walls of flint/Weathered and worn to drabness grey" and the "cold and ...