This is not an easy post to write. I feel a need to write with some haste but with great care also because the tone needs to be correct: arresting yet affirming but not mawkish. An important post; I make no apology that it is longer than my usual fare. You will understand why soon…
Sorry if this appears to be mawkish – but I wanted to write a timely memorial to a boy who was at school with me. Joe McCarthy was a year younger than me. His elder brother Jeremy was in my year and was a good friend of mine, as was Joe until something happened and…