Britain is no country for old men

'That is no country for old men....Caught in that sensual music all neglect Monuments of unageing intellect.' W.B.Yeats 'Sailing To Byzantium.' 1926

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Tuesday, 21 January 2025

Britain is a country where old men remember the year 1967, a singer called Ray Davies a band called 'The Kinks' and song called 'Waterloo Sunset'

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Britain is the country where old men watch Chalamet's Dylan and remember the year 1965 when they too yelled with all of their might


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Britain is a country where old men, once lads, remember a summer's afternoon in 1965, in a school called Eltham Green and "We will yell with all of our might"

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