By Ken Livingstone
It is a frank, gripping and relocating - and arguable - autobiography from probably the most idiosyncratic and powerful politicians of the final fifty years. His political convictions, his distance from New Labour, and his direct, plain-speaking variety and character have allowed him to outlive longer than any of his contemporaries as a guy of precept and impact. From his eccentric South London operating classification early life to working one of many largest towns on this planet, Livingstone is without doubt one of the only a few politicians to have scored an important victory over the Thatcher govt and has championed matters as different because the atmosphere, homosexual rights and anti-racism. Written in Livingstone's unmistakable voice, by way of turns angrily honest approximately social justice, wickedly droll and gossipy, and unusually wistful approximately humans he has identified and enjoyed, it is a highly vital and noteworthy e-book from one of many only a few revered politicians at paintings at the present time.
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Becoming more intolerant with age, he went through the Radio Times and TV Times each week with a marker pen obliterating any programme listing that included black or Irish people, gays, lesbians or David Frost. For the last five years of his life, when I was leader of the Greater London Council (GLC), he so hated my politics that we had no contact. Uncle Ken’s social life revolved around the pub at lunchtimes and almost every evening. He spent so much on drink that he never saved enough to buy his own home.
While Nan was babysitting us one evening she complained of a terrible headache. I tried to stay awake because she seemed so ill, but I eventually fell asleep on the end of my bed. I woke in the morning to be told that Nan had suffered a stroke and was in hospital. After she recovered she came to live with us and, following the death of Auntie Pat, Uncle Ken and his bulldog also moved in. * I was in my final year at St Leonard’s when Aunt Pat died of TB. My parents told me that I shouldn’t talk about her death at school, almost as though it was a matter of shame.
We didn’t take seriously the suggestion by some in the American media that this could be a Soviet plot and Mum was more concerned that Vice-President Johnson looked like an American gangster. That weekend became a crash course in American politics for the hundreds of millions watching and, although I didn’t realise it at the time, it started an obsession with politics that would change the course of my life. Because Telstar, the first US communications satellite, had recently been launched we were getting US television coverage almost as it happened and there was a feeling that the whole world was watching these events unfold.