1968: The Year 0f the Miracles!
It was as if a conscience-stricken god said to himself one day in the mid-60s: “I suppose I have been a bit rough on the poor old Trots; setback after setback, massacre after massacre, blow after blow, for four decades now.... ... There aren’t all that many of them left. If I don’t do something to encourage them soon, they’ll give up and die off. And think of all the fun they’ve given me, thwarting them — the presumptuous little buggers!” Then he had A thought: “Why don’t I give them a bit of encouragement?” So he did. Over a three year period, culminating in 1968-9, he organised a series of...