In search of the right stuff

THE SECRET AUTHOR is not a Conservative. He rarely looks at the current Cabinet without feeling the need of a bath, and his position is that of a disillusioned Labour voter who believes that the greatest political tragedy of the past thirty years was the premature death of John Smith. But in strictly professional terms, nothing would give him greater pleasure than the emergence on our bookshop shelves and in our Sunday arts supplements of a proper right-wing literature.

Or make that