I went to one in Banbury, Oxfordshire, which was like a lefty weekend away.
This lefty crowd isn't going to gather around a Navy Seal best known for killing people".
Like anyone, I feel as if my views are just the inevitable consequence of a hard-headed examination of the facts, but when I think about my roots and how my lefty worldview diverges from them, it's hard not to see a connection.
When the 25-year-old Slovakian lefty was 16, he won the junior French Open title and ranked No35, was just out of the seedings in Paris.
We don't say, 'I'm a lefty, I'm a socialist, I'm a Marxist.' Sometimes I'm a bit Women's Institute, sometimes I'll sign a 38 Degrees petition, sometimes I'll go on a climate march".
"It would be in our interests to protect the poor beleaguered Lefty," wrote Johnson, "in case he is replaced by someone more threatening".
I was a Guardian-reading lefty and she - well, one thing you quickly learn about Amanda is that she is always on the right.
Because that's all we wanted – the pricks fighting each other, saying: 'Who's further left?'" *** My lefty pilgrimage took me to some meetings so old-school it might have been the 1930s: an academic, in the House of Commons, introducing a paper.
Another persona was "the Hostess", so generous and talkative to the lefty and literary flotsam who crammed into her London flats, when inside she would be crushed from some unwise love affair or other, or just wanting to be alone.
