Peter Oborne

They went to ground

issue 28 September 2002

Peter Oborne exposes the interested parties who failed to march on Sunday

ONE of the most remarkable things about Sunday’s magnificent Countryside March was the superhuman effort shown by many people to get to London. This does not merely apply to the folk from Scotland and the north of England who rose hideously early in the morning to make long, boring coach journeys south.

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