The Bruges Group spearheaded the intellectual battle to win a vote to leave the European Union and, above all, against the emergence of a centralised EU state.
I was, I think, about seven years old when I was taken to the Theatre. Britain was a post-war drab place. That afternoon a new world opened for me. The curtain rose, an orchestra played and dazzling costumes and scenery entranced me. Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance transported me to a new, colourful, joyful realty and began my love of li...