Well, before all that, before I was called to the bar in 1978, I was here.

50 years ago, this summer, where's the time gone?

I was preparing to do part one.

I was a fairly idle undergraduate and spent a lot of time doing other things, going to parties.

And in bookshops.

And once I was in a secondhand bookshop, and I saw on the shelves an old copy of

Wittgenstein's structures, and I opened it.

And in the frie leaf was the name F.R. Leavis.

And I thought, well, I've got to buy this.

I had no money on me.

So I dashed back to my room in Johns, came back, and the book had gone.

And that's sort of reflection of how you miss things in life.

So if you've come across a book with somebody's famous initials in it,, or it's in it, then please buy it.

Because it could be that someone's going through all the second-hand bookshops in the country

falsely putting names in. So you have to be careful about that. So that was one thing that happened

to be in 1970s. I would, so that's putting it in history, that was just after we joined, the UK joined

the EU or EEC as it was in those days. We'd become one of the nine, originally six, we'd become

one of the nine countries. And there'd been a referendum in 1975, whether we should stay in the

EU, because in those days, the Tories, conservatives are broadly speaking in And there'd been a referendum in 1975 whether we should stay in the EU.

Because in those days, the Tories, Conservatives are broadly speaking in favour of the EU,

and there's a large chunk of the Labour Party that was against it.

So Harold Wilson decided to have a referendum on it, which I voted on.

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