“Well, they haven’t sent Will Self or Nick Lezard, so I can’t be that important…” is Peter Pinkney’s greeting when I arrive to interview him.
After mumbling my sincerest apologies for not being an acerbic middle-aged male NS columnist, I begin trying to find out why this union boss and self-proclaimed Marxist is running to become a Green MP.
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