In days of old, when knights were boldSome friends and I are starting to put together all the things that I’ve written since returning from England in 1965, and it reminds me a bit of Ben Chifley’s definition of politics.All it is, he said, is millions, and millions, of words. What we will finish up with – and what if anything I might do with the results – we shall see.But, quite apart from anything else, what is painfully emerging so far is the remorseless decline of the standards of soci…
