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9 November 2022

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Semi-retired, but hill farming, with fingers in various educational and environmental pies.

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The Brecon Beacons, in Wales.

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Yes, always.

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Too long to recall.

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It was thanks to my father, EF Schumacher, who wrote Small Is Beautiful. He was a life-long Labour supporter who used to say he would “vote Labour with tears streaming down his face” but that if he tried to vote Conservative “the pen would wither” in his hand!

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Andrew Marr, Kevin Maguire.

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Jeremy Hunt. Or my father, who foresaw so much of what is going on today.

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There have been too many.

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[See also: Munira Mirza: “The constant briefing at Westminster is corrosive”]

This article appears in the 09 Nov 2022 issue of the New Statesman, On the brink