"The ne plus ultra of Tory fantasy fiction "

Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Tory-Boy Satanists, insane anti-American scientists, an army of hungry Lizards-from-beyond-the-Void.

Yes, it's the University of York in 1981 - though not as anyone now alive remembers it

Edward Parker is a right-wing hypochondriac with a weight problem. Falling asleep one night as an ageing and ever-so-slightly failed barrister, he wakes in his youthful body, back in those moderately golden days of yore.

It's a dream. It's surely a...