The letter below, written by our Chairman, Edward Spalton, was recently published in the Derby Telegraph. Sir, Like D.G. Betts (30 June), I am keen to be out of the EU and have been since 1972 when I began to […]
(1) A BLAST FROM THE PAST – I mentioned that my father had devised a milk replacer food for baby calves. It was government policy during the war and for a long time afterwards that as much milk as possible […]
The Swinging Sixties and Beyond It is easy to forget how much things have changed since the Sixties. There was no internet. So unless you subscribed to specialist publications or were in a political party or special interest or trade […]
EPISODE 1 – Early intimations. “Shades of the prison house begin to close upon the growing boy” – Ode on intimations of immortality from recollections of early childhood by William Wordsworth. We moved into the countryside from the house next […]
The letter below appeared in the Derby Telegraph – in response to Mr C. N. Westerman – an indefatigable letter writer and ardent europhile. Sir, Mr. C N Westerman is fulsome in his praise for Clement Attlee, the post war […]
LORD WALSINGHAM (now aged 92) was a Third Secretary in the German Department of the British Foreign Office in 1950, when the foundations were being laid for the first stage of what is now the EU. It was then called […]
