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Topic History of: Leo Abse RIP - and thank you Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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veritas
So Tom Robinson is married with kids! well good on him. Was he gay ? Funny isn't it-I went along to that gathering with my girlfiend (later my wife). I think we maybe thought we were being rather outrageous supprting a "gay' song-afterall most of our friends were gay or lesbian. So now I know here Tom is.
Leo Abse-I've alway thought of Leo as a similar peson to Manny Shinwell..do you remember Manny ?. He epitomised to me the real worth of pariamentary service-a person deidcated to their constiuency. He later ended up in the House of Lords as Lord Shinwell and lived to be about 100. They dont make polticians like Manmy anymore-an advocate that every side of politics respected.
JK2006
And Tom has a powerful BBC6 radio show too.
zooloo
Yes, the Tom Robinson.
IRC it was a two part series on Radio 4 about the gay scene. Another IRC - there had been prosecutions of consenting males over 21, the the rest I don't IRC or otherwise.
Regarding some golden-age of decent Parliamentarians I recommend Trollope's Palliser novels. We haven't introduced any new customs
Chris Retro
veritas wrote:
do you mean theTom Robinson ?
I can remember being in Trafalgar Square with thousands of others as the band sang "Sing If You're Glad To Be Gay"..what mad times !
where is he now ?
Tom Robinson is still writing and recording at his leisure and also broadcasts on Radio 2. He's also married with a wife and kids!
I bet no-one at Trafalgar Square that day would have predicted any of that!
veritas
Leo Abse came from an era when people joined Parliament as a sign of public service rather than today -as a stepping stone on the career path to somewhere else-while you plunder the public purse and make shonky deals with private enterprise.
Parliaments then had decent men in all the parties.
I read that when Lord Wolfenden was preparing his report-he asked his son if he could kindly desist from wearing make-up in public !
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do you mean theTom Robinson ?
I can remember being in Trafalgar Square with thousands of others as the band sang "Sing If You're Glad To Be Gay"..what mad times !