Contents
Contents
1 1945: Footsteps in the Dark
2 Early Life: Buttonholes and Cornerstones
3 The 1930s: The Devil's Decade
4 The War Years: My University of Life
5 Postwar World: Civvy Street, Fleet Street
6 Aneurin Bevan: From NHS to The Bomb
7 The 1960s: Postwar Interregnum
8 Harold Wilson: White Heat and the Sun
9 In Place of Courage: Journalism in Decline
10 The Long March: Dropping in on China in the Cultural Revolution
11 Prepare for Revolution: In Britain?
12 1973 -4: For All Our Tomorrows
13 Inside the Whale: A Journalist in Whitehall
14 Jim Callaghan Takes Over: ? Too Late at 64?
15 Return of the Native: Back to the Mirror
16 A Nation in Discontent: Nothing at the End of the Rainbow
17 1979: The Curtain Falls, Enter Margaret Thatcher
18 Maxwelliana: Cap'n Bob and his Slippery Decks
19 Conclusion: A Funny Old World
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