Cet article porte sur l'homme politique britannique. Pour le musicien britannique du même nom, voir: Alan Clark .
Alan Kenneth McKenzie Clark, dit Alan Clark, né le 13 avril 1928 et mort le 5 septembre 1999, est un historien, diariste et homme politique britannique. Connu pour son engagement en faveur des animaux , son humour acerbe, sa vie sexuelle aventureuse et son refus du politiquement correct, il est le membre du Parti conservateur « le mieux connu et le plus aisément reconnaissable des années 1990, après Margaret Thatcher et John Major ».
The Independent le décrit comme éloquent, cultivé, insolent, au comportement « langoureux et cavalier », usant « de manière ostentatoire » de son accent « des vieilles classes supérieures ». Le New York Times voit en lui « l'un des députés les plus charmants et les plus flamboyants » du Parlement britannique, ainsi que l'archétype d'un « conservateur de la vieille école ».
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“I am not a fascist. Fascists are shopkeepers, I am a Nazi.”
William Donaldson (ed.), Brewer's Rogues, Villains and Eccentrics (London 2002), p. 152.
Letter to the Guardian.
January 30, 1991; page 395.
On the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Diaries: In Power (1993)
January 29, 1988; page 198.
Diaries: In Power (1993)
Interviewed by John Pilger in the documentary Death of a Nation, broadcast on ITV February 22, 1994.
The interview was transcribed in New Statesman and Society, February 18, 1994 http://www.hamline.edu/apakabar/basisdata/1994/02/21/0009.html.
“You cannot come here because you are not white.”
Quoted in his obituary in The Guardian, September 8, 1999 http://politics.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,3899666-103684,00.html.
In 1971 Clark said this should be the message given to refugees expelled by Idi Amin from Uganda who held residence rights in the UK.
“The trouble with Michael [Heseltine] is that he had to buy his own furniture”
Attributed by Clark in his diaries to Michael Jopling. The full quote is "An arriviste, certainly, who can't shoot straight and in Jopling's damning phrase 'bought all his own furniture', but who at any rate seeks the cachet. All the nouves in the party think he is the real thing." https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/aug/07/bbc.politicsandthemedia
Misattributed
May 15, 1983; page 5.
On the sinking of the ARA General Belgrano during the Falklands War.
Diaries: In Power (1993)
April 3, 1990; page 291.
On reform of the General Staff, while he was Minister of Defence Procurement.
Diaries: In Power (1993)
“The only solution for dealing with the IRA is to kill 600 people in one night.”
Spoken at a fringe meeting at the Conservative Party Conference, October 7, 1997. Reported in The Guardian, October 8, 1997 http://politics.guardian.co.uk/conservatives/story/0,,451799,00.html
