Jack Beeching News Today

Drugs, wars, civil unrest and politics go hand in hand.

MY last article (M Star March 20-21) described the World Youth Festival that I went to in Budapest in 1949. In October I left my comfortable but expensive boarding house in Bristol, rented a room from a party member, and fended for myself.  I couldn’t cook, so I had most of my meals at the students’ union. My breakfast consisted of a single Mars bar.  That winter I developed bronchitis, and my mother came to look after me, cooking shepherd’s pie, which has remained  one of my favourite...