DON’T MINCE YOUR WORDS
Critics sometimes decry “telling it like it is” as no more than a cover for saying unpleasant things.
In my case, it was in a letter from the late Ron Todd, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers’ Union, years ago. Great man Ron rose from works convenor at Ford’s Dagenham plant to be the leader of the country’s biggest (and in those days, best) union.
He liked something I’d written in the Mirror, and urged: ”Keep telling it like it is.”
Shall do, Ron.