4 NOVEMBER 2000, page 59

Waiting For The Call

Alan Watkins ALAN CLARK, DIARIES: INTO POLITICS edited by Ion Trewin Weidenfeld, £20, pp. 389 W hen the first (chronologically the second) volume of Alan Clark's diaries came......

As Rain Pours Down

As rain pours down on this prefabricated hut, With nothing better to do, I turn on the radio: Wagner. Oh well. Dusk gathers and I see the chestnut Once fiery with bloom has......