21-03-2010, 12:11 PM
David Guyatt Wrote:I remember Sir Reginald with fondness. I studied under him at Peterhouse for my Doctorate in Political Sophistry & Trouser Stuffing (not to be confused with shirt lifting). I got a 2:1, whereas he had a first class bank account.
Good times.
This must have been during Pike-Darkness' faux-revolutionary period circa 1968, when he was writing for Harold Evans' Times on such diverse issues as fashion ("the drainpipe hipsters against the fascist De Gaulle"), politics ("is Robert Kennedy a communist?"), and rock music ("Mick Jagger gives me satisfaction: an interview"). This period is not to be confused with his later, Monday Club period, when he anonymously authored the pamphlet "Red Star over Sidcup" (Grocer Heath as a conscious agent of the Bolshevik conspiracy), and co-authored (with William F. Buckley, Jr.) a thriller alleging that a naked Khrushchev axe-murdered JFK in revenge for his humiliation in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
By the way, he didn't stroke a youthful Guyatt leg, did he, and demand you be of some service to the nation?
Thought as much. Typical SIS.