(fun thing: I was one of four reporters to attend their first ever party conference, in 1990. I was twelve at the time. It was for 'Early Times' which was a prototype newspaper for children run by Nicky Cox, who eventually founded the much more successful 'First News')

a thing I didn't fully realize as a kid was how many people I knew were militant trade unionists and environmental radicals, like Colin Barnett, who I remember as a sweet old limping uncle. www.theguardian.com/theguardian/...

Colin Barnett obituary

Other lives: Militant trade unionist during the winter of discontent and the 'dirty jobs' strike in the late 1970s

Was Icke involved at that point?

One of these days you are going to have to actually write a book about you and your family.