I have a copy here. As political diaries go, it's really good, but, owing to the form, you get a little on many subjects and meaty chunks only come along from time to time—Colville being by turns prescient and hopelessly wrong in his analysis. By nature of his work, he got about a lot—very far from deskbound—so you get snippets from a very wide range of contacts, professional, political and social. If you've read Alanbrooke's Diary, as I have, and enjoyed taking it in nightly doses—which I did—you'll find much to enjoy here. I can post some extracts later.
This section, picked fairly randomly, is entirely typical. As you can see, the man—and his boss—kept busy! Edit: Apologies. Pages now in the correct order.
Jock Colville came and lectured to us on the KCL War Studies Masters' in 1983. Fascinating. And a few weeks later, General Sir Ian Jacob...
