Church of England Article By Lord Taylor of Warwick Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain and Diego Maradona. What do these people have in common? They are all examples of rich, famous personalities whose careers were ruined by drugs. In more recent times, Pete Doherty and Amy Winehouse are often in the media for alleged association with illegal drugs. Hendrix and …
The Terror Tax
21 November 1974 is a date etched in my memory. I was a university student, enjoying a drink with a couple of friends in Birmingham’s Mulberry Bush Pub. By the time I got home I saw the news on the TV. Less than an hour after we had left the pub, it had been blown up by an IRA bomb. The nearby …