Yesterday at a CND commemoration for the Hiroshima anniversary I heard Rose Hacker, billed by the Camden New Journal as the “world’s oldest columnist” speak.
And it was as good a speech as you’ll hear in many a day, built around the theme of 100-year anniversaries, and delivered without notes.
Unfortunately I was juggling a camera and couldn’t take notes, but one particular line struck home: this year marks the 100th anniversary of women in the England and Wales being allowed to stand for local councils.
She wondered how it was that in the century since, women have made so little progress in politics.
Not at all bad going at age 101 for Rose anyway, if not for women in politics.
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