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You've got to love a man who insists governments are fit only for making the trains run on time and unblocking the drains.
Furthermore, says the writer and barrister Sir John Mortimer (pictured), what we choose to eat, drink or smoke has got nothing to do with politicians - and he's as good as his word. In a typically flamboyant gesture the creator of Rumpole of the Bailey, who years ago complained on my programme that "Mrs Thatcher always seems so cross with us all", forced himself to take up cigars when the ban on smoking in public places was announced.See the full content of this document
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Smoke Because You Can't
For a man in his eighties, who contemptuously ignores anything that sma...
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