Saturday, 9 August 2014

The importance of being awkward

Today is the 82nd birthday of Tam Dalyell, former Labour MP (1962-2005) and Father of the House of Commons (2001-2005), former Rector of the University of Edinburgh (2003-2006) and continuing stalwart of the Justice for Megrahi campaign. During the seven years of this blog's life he has featured frequently. His appearances are gathered together here.

3 comments:

  1. Sirrah,

    Just sent him an email birthday message on the back of your post here. Thanks for the reminder. He was up there as one our first Signatories.

    By the way, I thought I had a problem with numbers till I met you. Tis six, not seven. I know this because seven is my magic number: that's when we all march up the High Street to the court (hopefully). In any case, whatever happens, we've come far in considerably less time than the twenty-five years of cock up or whatever one may wish to term it.

    Robert.

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  2. I've altered the second last sentence to please Robert, even though I don't believe people thought the "its" in the original version really referred to JFM rather than the blog. But Robert is a stickler and any suspicion of ambiguity is to be avoided.

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  3. Lord, what pain in the neck I can be!

    Pip, pip.

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