Just Larkin' around: Fun and games in the blurred zone between theatre and life
When the Russian tanks roll westward, what defence for you and me?
Colonel Sloman's Essex Rifles? The Light Horse of the L.S.E.?
A funny thing happened to me on the way to the computer yesterday.
I thought of these lines by Philip Larkin, written in 1969. At that time, Albert Sloman was presiding as Chancellor over revolting British students at the University of Essex, where the revolutionary leader of the day was the current Baron Triesman of Tottenham in the London Borough of Hackney, then plain David Triesman, who ascended unto the House of Lords (after Larkin's death) via his office in the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education, in the Association of University Teachers and as general secretary of the British Labour Party (2001-2003).