Family History
Miles Taylor
- Free at Last: Diaries 1991-2001 by Tony Benn
Hutchinson, 738 pp, £25.00, October 2002, ISBN 0 09 179352 1 - Free Radical: New Century Essays by Tony Benn
Continuum, 246 pp, £9.95, May 2003, ISBN 0 8264 6596 X
In February, two elderly men met in a Middle Eastern suburb and took afternoon tea. As old men do, they reminisced, chatted about their grandchildren and speculated on the perilous state of the world. The younger of the two had a problem: he had a reputation for being an aggressor and none of his neighbours, or his neighbours’ powerful friends, believed him when he said he had put away his weapons for good. Puffing on his pipe, the older man offered reassurance. Many years ago he was known as the most dangerous man in his neighbourhood, yet now everyone thought of him as harmless. Several months have passed since tea and talk in Baghdad; the whereabouts of Saddam Hussein remain unknown, but Tony Benn is alive and well and coming soon to a concert hall near you.
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