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| Letters: John Calder the Liberal | Letters: John Calder the Liberal |
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| Your obituary of John Calder highlighted his successes as a courageous publisher and opponent of censorship, but he was also active in politics, as an energetic supporter of the Scottish Liberal party. He stood in the Liberal interest at two elections, against the former prime minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, at Kinross and West Perthshire in 1970, and at Hamilton, south Lanarkshire, where the SNP had high hopes, in October 1974. | Your obituary of John Calder highlighted his successes as a courageous publisher and opponent of censorship, but he was also active in politics, as an energetic supporter of the Scottish Liberal party. He stood in the Liberal interest at two elections, against the former prime minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, at Kinross and West Perthshire in 1970, and at Hamilton, south Lanarkshire, where the SNP had high hopes, in October 1974. |
| The titles his firm published included Community Politics, a volume of essays edited by Peter Hain (at that time a member of the party), Liberal Politics in Britain, by Arthur Cyr, and No Shining Armour, by the former Labour MP Edward (Eddie) Milne, which exposed widespread corruption in public life in north-east England. | The titles his firm published included Community Politics, a volume of essays edited by Peter Hain (at that time a member of the party), Liberal Politics in Britain, by Arthur Cyr, and No Shining Armour, by the former Labour MP Edward (Eddie) Milne, which exposed widespread corruption in public life in north-east England. |
| I recall John as a regular attender at Liberal conferences, where, very much on the radical wing of the party, he gave moral and sometimes financial support to initiatives from the like-minded Young Liberals.Nigel Lindsay | I recall John as a regular attender at Liberal conferences, where, very much on the radical wing of the party, he gave moral and sometimes financial support to initiatives from the like-minded Young Liberals.Nigel Lindsay |
| It was an honour to have had poetry published by John Calder and see piles of my book in the Calder Bookshop window. While active at the shop (with its minuscule theatre in the back room) he would enjoy rubbishing the political world over a Rioja-washed lunch at the tapas bar a couple of doors down or, if things were really serious, at the Caledonian Club. | It was an honour to have had poetry published by John Calder and see piles of my book in the Calder Bookshop window. While active at the shop (with its minuscule theatre in the back room) he would enjoy rubbishing the political world over a Rioja-washed lunch at the tapas bar a couple of doors down or, if things were really serious, at the Caledonian Club. |
| His was the Liberalism of Jo Grimond and later of Charles Kennedy, deeply suspicious of Labour’s authoritarian moments under Tony Blair’s later cabinets and of Harold Wilson’s anti-European stance. Tories he simply could not abide. | His was the Liberalism of Jo Grimond and later of Charles Kennedy, deeply suspicious of Labour’s authoritarian moments under Tony Blair’s later cabinets and of Harold Wilson’s anti-European stance. Tories he simply could not abide. |
| He was a fierce advocate for proper funding of the arts, hugely supportive when I was director of the National Campaign for the Arts in the early 1990s and an ardent European.Simon Mundy | He was a fierce advocate for proper funding of the arts, hugely supportive when I was director of the National Campaign for the Arts in the early 1990s and an ardent European.Simon Mundy |
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