The Last Pub In Fleet Street

Download or read book A Short Walk Down Fleet Street written by Alan Watkins and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2000 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Watkins has spent over forty years in journalism and has written columns for the Sunday Express, the Spectator, the New Statesman, the Sunday Mirror, the Observer and the Independent on Sunday. This book draws upon his wealth of experience of politics and journalism to write about many characters, including Anthony Crosland, Tom Driberg, Barbara Castle, Hugh Cudlipp and Malcolm Muggeridge. But the hero of the book, brought back to life within these pages, is Old Fleet Street itself, which lasted until the 1980s and is now, as he puts it, as remote as the Byzantine Empire.