Currently reading the memoirs of Rabbi Lionel Blue "Hitch-hiking to Heaven"; of interest to me, because I was at school with him at Hendon County, after he returned to school for sixth form Higher School Cert, after a year out when left school in East End, and won a scholarship from there to Balliol. Bit of drift: but might be of interest that Frank Williams, later the Vicar in "Dad's Army", was in same VIth form -- oddly ecumenical! Not that Frank was a real vicar, but he was a devout practising Christian, regular churchgoer, member of Synod of CofE IIRC. Another drifty coincidence: I was in school play in which Frank played the lead, "The Ghost Train", written 20 years earlier by actor-playwright Arnold Ridley, who was also in "Dad's Army" as the somewhat incontinent elderly Private Godfrey.

Also reading collections of essays by the interesting campaigning & socially-commentating journalist Theodore Dalrymple.

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