Table of Contents
September, 2014 1
Escape to Cordoba
Thatcher and other broken promises
Memoirs, dogs and lampposts
A Believing Age
April, 2014 7
Miss R comes to Wapping
Margaret sideways
A tomb by the Thames
Ronnie, Woodrow, Frank and David Hart
May 45
Doomed walls
Ronnie Millar's piano
Remains of Molotovs
Seaside balsa palaces
In the Falklands War
Gotchal
June 89
Falling glass
D.H. Lawrence in the Miners' Strike
How I was Woodrowed
Frank Johnson and the penis on the roof
July 115
Four ghosts return
Frank Finds the skip
Latin at The Old Rose
Gorbachev and the Gunpowder Plot
Maggie, Out, Out, Out!
August 189
When Wapping dies
Woodrow Wyatt in the Locarno Room
Poems by a Prime Minister
Cool Britannia
Seneca's last bath
September 265
Cordoba, three weeks on
Deaths and letters
Who Miss R was
The Senecans' farewells
Escaped parrots 265
Acknowledgements 275