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“The Vintage Triumph” and Triumphs in My Life

30 March 2015 Comments 0 Comments

All Triumphs All the Time: Issue 150 of The Vintage Triumph magazine, 2015

Harry Barnes was to have been our first editor, but quickly decided he couldn’t do it. I was elected, producing issues 1-18 from 1974 to 1977. Looking at those productions, I’m struck that while Triumphs haven’t changed much else has in half a lifetime.

Annual dues were $10—equal to $48 today, but didn’t buy as much. Imagine a world without computers! You printed off sheets of clean, “camera-ready” type. We couldn’t afford typesetting; those who didn’t have electric typewriters put a brand new ribbon in their Remingtons and banged hard on the keys.…

Churchill’s “We are all in it together”

21 July 2013 Comments 6 Comments

Chris Hastings in The Mail on Sunday reports the “discovery” that Churchill used the phrase “we are all in it together” in a Jubilee dinner organized by the National Association of Her Majesty’s Inspector of Taxes on 28 May 1952.

This, Hastings claims, shows that Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne was being Churhcillian when he said recently “We are all in this together” when talking about the spending cuts.

Churchill’s line was uncovered by historian Andrew Roberts and the Churchill Archives Centre, in a cache of unpublished recordings of Churchill speeches found at Chartwell.…