SOMETHING I NEVER THOUGHT I'D SEE IN MY LIFETIME...

I suspect most folk who read this are around my age or maybe just a few years younger, so I guess all of us can recall the era of apartheid. It was the situation in South Africa, together with the miners strike in the UK and the efforts to overcome homophobia, that did more than anything else to raise my own political awareness.I was proud to be come from a city (Glasgow) and go to a university (Strathclyde) that were among the first to give accolades to the then imprisoned Nelson Mandela. And e...

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