A retired editor, not quite dead

摘要

Writing in his column in the June 19 issue of the Spectator, Paul Johnson claimed that "there is no one quite so dead as a dead editor, or even a retired one". As a former editor who has been retired for nearly 13 years, I regarded that as a warning against further intrusion upon the pharmaceutical sene. However, my inhibiton was dispelled upon subsequently reading in the Times a comment to the effect that most people seem to ignore history so that the same disasters occur in the same embarrassing and entertaining fashion. I should know, because the recent history of The Pharmaceutical Journal is a sad example of history repeating itself, but more on that perhaps on some other occasion. This time, it is the history of the Society's branch representatives' meeting that concerns me.