This is a collection of essays written at various times between 1968 and 1988 on subjects ranging from Sylvia Pankhurst to John Lennon, the common feature being radical and provocative writing, by one of the youngest of a group of writers who created the underground press in Britain in the Sixties. David Widgery is the former editor of Oz magazine. He went on to write on international relations and Marxist theory and to edit Socialist Worker. He has written The Left in Britain 1956-1968, Health in Danger, Beating Time and The National Health.