The Spectator, July 2nd, 2005
Low life
Responding to Boh Geldof's call for a Dunkirk-style armada of small boats to pop across the Channel to pick up those French people wishing to protest at Gleneagles, the Sunday Telegraph last week commissioned me to pop across to Boulogne in a fishing boat. It was to be a trial run. My brief was to report on how easy or hard it is to cross the Channel in a tiny vessel, then try to persuade the burghers of Boulogne to return with me to England in the name of justice for Africa.
Third-generation Dover fisherman Mick Crocker volunteered to take me across in his venerable old wooden fish...
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