Jim Higgins was Dad's boss at Events , the Middle East companion magazine to the Arabic Al Hawadess and then Dad's good friend. He was a very witty intelligent man. Roger Protz in his obituary in the Guardian said that Jim: 'was one of the most remarkable and didactic figures in the British revolutionary socialist movement of his time, someone who drew generations of people to independent, libertarian Marxism. He was also the best-read and mos t truly scholarly person I have known.' I met him and his better half Jane on the occasions they came down to visit us in Brighton. I didn't understand a lot of the jokes because they were in-jokes and a lot of them were filthy and I was only 17. But I laughed anyway.
Left wing commentary from the heart and the head