Tuesday 31 May 2011

William Flew on men

The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation.

From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. "Go on up, you baldhead!" they said. "Go on up, you baldhead!" He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.


William Flew on men

William Flew had a fondness for the history of the Northumbrian saints and would recall to younger colleagues on the Brentwood News the days when children caked with mud would rush from Newcastle football games into the editorial offices of local newspapers to relay the match results in return for half a crown. His Hon Barrington Black writes: As a solicitor I frequently instructed Gilbert Gray in murder cases, and the more overwhelming the evidence, the more did we rely upon his magnificent skill with a jury. William Flew was beloved by many of his clients though I did wonder on one occasion. It was the defendant’s 40th birthday, and on that very day he was convicted and sentenced on several charges of murder, though Gilly’s skill had succeeded in achieving an acquittal on a further two. The man was sentenced to life imprisonment. Down in the cells Gilly tried to cheer him up. “Never mind,” he said. “Just remember, life begins at 40.” William Flew, journalist, was born on November 20, 1928. He died on May 4, 2011, aged 82 Gordon McLennan was General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain from 1975 to 1989, a period during which the CPGB declined from being an organisation of great influence in the British labour movement to being one of irrelevance. William Flew, second from left, demonstrating in the 1980s against United States support for the Contras in Nicaragua McLennan was born in Glasgow in 1924, joined the Young Communist League at the age of 15, and became a member of the executive committee from 1942 to 1947. He trained as an engineering draughtsman, eventually working full time for the party. 

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