TONY LEON | Today politics says goodbye to a man whose name belies his character
For more than 40 years James Selfe has been one of this country’s most faithful servants. We need more of him
07 December 2021 - 20:52
Stanley Baldwin, three times British prime minister in the interwar years, opined on his departure from parliament in 1937, “Once I leave, I leave. I am not going to speak to the man on the bridge and I am not going to spit on the deck.”..
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