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Thread #158007   Message #3734354
Posted By: MGM·Lion
31-Aug-15 - 05:34 AM
Thread Name: BS: David Cameron is execrable
Subject: RE: BS: David Cameron is execrable
For the record --

"Hamish Scott Henderson, (11 November 1919 – 9 March 2002; Scottish Gaelic: Seamas MacEanraig (Seamas Mòr)) was a Scottish poet, songwriter, communist, soldier and intellectual." Wikipedia

I knew him slightly. I admired his achievements, but was not alone in finding him an exceptionally contentious person, touchy to a fault & constantly picking quarrels over imagined and unintentional slights. I particularly remember his shouting for an uninterrupted 15 minutes at Peter Bellamy, who had said to him of a resentful and pugnacious remark he had made backstage about having been deliberately neglected by the organisers of the Cambridge Festival in the early 1970s, "Isn't that a bit uncharitable, Hamish?" Mr Henderson stopped us on the way out at the end of the evening [Pete & Anthea were staying over as usual with Valerie & me in Cambridge], said to Pete, "Could I just have a quick word? - What do you mean by calling me uncharitable!", and launched into that denunciatory diatribe which Anthea & I listened to in astounded puzzlement. One of those experiences which live with me from that hour to this.

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Sorry for this drift from topic of Mr Cameron, but it's the way the thread seems to have gone