“I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which leads to a dark gulf. It is a fine broad stairway at the beginning, but after a bit the carpet runs ends. A little farther on there are only flagstones, and a little farther still these break beneath your feet.”

(Sir Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965)

John Lentell

26th March, 1970