Summer of Love

[callmemadam]

We have just watched the BBC's Summer of Love programme, in which the usual bunch of self-promoting media folk told how they changed the world in the 1960s. Let me explain to them who really changed the world.

Martin Luther King, speech in Washington DC 1963
Roy Jenkins, Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965
Leo Abse, Sexual Offences Act 1967
David Steel, Abortion Act 1967

And some other Men In Suits.

Never mind, the music was great.

Comments

[sloopjonb.livejournal.com]

I never noticed the world change in 1967. Mind you, I was only 7.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

There I have the advantage of you, having been in the thick of things, at university.

[sloopjonb.livejournal.com]

Mrs. Auchterlonie's class in Junior One was quite thick enough for me, and probably still is. By the time I got to tertiary education (a sorry episode I shall draw a veil over) the only thing the students worried about was where the next job was coming from.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

where the next job was coming from
That's where we were lucky (as in so many other ways). We despised all the people who wanted to be on Union committees so it would look good on their cvs when they applied to Shell and ICI. All the nice folk went into teaching and social work. I suppose we were quite idealistic. Sigh.