Millie Week 49, Mon 12 - Sat 17 Aug 1991

The plot thickens, and Richard finds himself landed with the job of being responsible for the fourth form of Crippen Comprehensive, miles from civilisation, and not being up to the job.

John Major was the Prime Minister at the time. It is said of him that he rose without trace. He was popularly depicted as a grey boring man, but secretly I quite liked him. After the madness of Margaret Thatcher's final years it was good to have a dull decent man in charge of the country. What he didn't have was any authority. He was soon to find himself desperately trying to keep his government going as his party plotted against him, while simultaneously self destructing in an orgy of sex scandals, incompetence. criminality and bribery. He was that teacher we've all had who couldn't keep order in the classroom.