This World, This Life

  I bought this tome at a second hand book shop in Warsaw, it cost me PLN10 - which is a little over a quid in today's money.  It's taken a while to get through, such is the level of detail, but I'm glad I did.  It's made me re-assess him, as both a man and a leader. ------------------------------------------------------- I admit to having a soft spot for the bloke: we're the same vintage (he's about 6 weeks younger than me), he's apparently a football fan (Newcastle United his well published loyalty) and has similar tastes in music.  I remember him moving into Downing Street with a Fender Stratocaster guitar and amp, which seemed pretty cool to me at the time, and frankly still does.  On the debit side, he went to a minor public school, Fettes, rather than a state school like mine, and thence to St. John's College, Oxford to study Law and then on to the Inns of Court School for Law and a position in chambers, while I left school at 17 with four O-Levels