Early this morning the relatively useless Sky News channel, hitherto obsessed with highly repetitive info on the Malaysian Boeing 777 disappearance and the Oscar Pretorius murder trial (flavours of the day as Ukraine largely and Syria more or less completely disappear from their radar), brings us the news that Tony Benn has died. Not totally unexpected but sad. So glad now that we saw him in November, being interviewed by Owen Jones at Bishopsgate. We knew then that we were lucky and that it might well be our last chance. A beacon of the left, yes, but beyond that a man of overwhelming personal integrity. No quiet retirement, though he would have been 89 next month. Certainly no ossifying of ideas or principles. As Harold Wilson quipped, he immatured with age.
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