22nd August
A few weeks ago the Ambridge Socialist was asked if there had ever been an anarchist in the Archers. Socialists and radicals there have been but not it seems anarchists.
Some progress was made at the village fete on Sunday when visiting celeb Toyah Wilcox quoted William Morris to forelock tugger Will Grundy:
“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”
Grundy of course had never heard of the man he called William Morriston. Morris (1834-1896) may variously be described as a socialist, an extra or anti-Parliamentary socialist and an anarchist. In his utopian novel News from Nowhere he describes Parliament as having been replaced by a dungheap, an idea that would surely have an appeal in Ambridge
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