A champion of the sector

摘要

Last Thursday afternoon I received an email from George Jones commenting on an article which I had written for that day's The MJ. He was impressed The MJ editorial team had published a book review, having told me only two weeks ago (over one of our regular lunches that at times felt more like tutorials, other than for the food and fine wine); 'they don't like or appreciate book reviews'. 'We need to persuade the editor to publish regular reviews of books relevant to local government,' he continued. George implied he would much enjoy submitting such reviews. Sadly, he was to have a massive brain haemorrhage within hours of writing this email - and died the next day. Now we shall never have the opportunity to be enlightened by what would have been incisive/insightful reviews.