Do you get the feeling that as a society we have peaked? That things are never going to get any better and we are on the downhill run to, well, what Joseph Conrad coined ‘the heart of darkness?’ I don’t want to get too maudlin here, but the ‘warring’ (sic) twenties certainly aren’t progressing well – fires, floods, plagues, and war. As Bill Lawry would say, ‘it’s all happening!’
As readers of this magazine, you probably like to delve into the past and reminisce about how it used to be. I certainly do, but there is a catch. You see, I think I was probably born 15 years too late. Let me explain.
It would be easy to pick a decade as being the pinnacle, say the swinging sixties, but…
