Issue 72

..election campaign characterised by profound shallowness and intellectual mediocrity by both political parties and the media, I wrote …..“Many years ago I recollect seeing in scratchy black and white an interview between Walter Cronkite and an aging Dean Acheson who had been the Secretary of State in the Truman Administration. He had played a central…

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Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. ..winner taking home both tubes in triumph. There are endless examples of feeble synchronicity that we all experience daily – we just have to keep our senses alert to the possiblities. I’m not sure what it proves, but cumulatively it can have a pretty disconcerting effect, which might have something…

The Cathedral Boys’ Choir in 1958. Or perhaps 1957. I’m second from the top next to the pulpit and next down from me is David McPhail. Hamish ‘Gubby’ Guthrie is sixth down from the left. (Reproduced without permission from David McPhail’s auto-biography, The years before my Death).

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..version, which is to music what the hydrogen bomb is to a fart. I can understand completely that to discover me sitting on a stool in the corner of a café with a guitar playing a bunch of never before heard songs can be a confronting or even annoying experience if not seen and heard…