During a long career in journalism, Andy McSmith encountered Prime
Minister Margaret Thatcher in a Siberian town called Bratsk; dined
with Sir Edward Heath in his home in Salisbury; was mugged in the
street while visiting Moscow with John Major; and knew Boris
Johnson as a colleague with an ambition to be something more than
just a journalist. Unusually, though, early in his career he
abandoned journalism, to return after more than a decade as a
left-wing political activist and playwright. This brought him into
close contact with people he would never otherwise have met,
including a Trotskyist with a weird millennial vision of the coming
revolution, and the strike organiser who brought down leaders of
the Polish Communist Party years before the Iron Curtain fell.
Working full time for the Labour Party, he knew Gordon Brown and
Tony Blair as new MPs, sharing a cramped office in Parliament.
Before all that, he was a rebellious teenager who was hanging out
with the hippies in San Francisco on the day the Beatles icon
George Harrison paid a visit. A host of characters pass through
this account of his long life – some highly successful, others
not, each recalled in vivid detail.
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