What if it had happened otherwise? Reflections on a 40-year-old page proof found in my attic

This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday column

 

Sifting through a box-file in my attic last week, I found myself staring in wonder at a creased and faded newspaper front page with the headline ���Tatchell Wins it!��� It described the victory of the famed homosexual rights campaigner Peter Tatchell in a by-election in Bermondsey in February 1983. But of course no such thing happened. Mr Tatchell, the victim of several rather shocking smear campaigns, was undermined by his own Labour Party and ...