Pete Seeger was the last to go; Phil Ochs the first. I suppose it is the result of being very old myself and I, certainly, won't be anyone's hero. The following extract is taken from "The Church Times" ( yes I am very catholic in my reading habits - no pun intended) and is taken from a review of a new biography on the subject. Any guesses from my two readers out there? Clue - he was not a folk singer.
Nevertheless, the author points to the many government reforms that civilised Britain in ways that we now take for granted. Among these were further regulations on racial discrimination, abolition of capital punishment and corporal punishment in prisons, legalising abortion and same-sex relations, reforming divorce laws, and the creation of the Open University.
Further, the Government could be proud of its record on housing, social services, health, and its help for the poorest, promoting equal pay for women and attempting to end the stigma attached to those on state benefits by recognising that the recipients had rights
