In the early 1980s I went out briefly with the daughter of a Thatcher cabinet minister, and spent several evenings at her family home in one of London’s posher postcodes. One night our snogging was interrupted by the sound of metal objects bouncing off the Regency stucco. ‘What the hell is that?’ I shouted, leaping off the chaise longue like a busted poacher.
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