Little England
Patrick Wright: The view through a bus window, 7 September 2006
Great British Bus Journeys: Travels through Unfamous Places
by David McKie.
Atlantic, 359 pp., £16.99, March 2006,1 84354 132 7 Show More
by David McKie.
Atlantic, 359 pp., £16.99, March 2006,
“... same genre as the rumour – even David McKie has been unable to turn up a precise source – that Margaret Thatcher once remarked that anyone who rode a bus after reaching the age of 26 was a failure. It also reminded me of a story Ken Livingstone liked to recite when he was leader of the GLC. One day, he had found himself taking the Underground in the ... ”