It's not the leaving of Liverpool that's grieving me …

Without a daffodil in sight, the spring Council of the National Union of Students assembled from 30 March — 3 April at Liverpool for its equinoctial bloodletting. To Geoffrey Martin, in the presidential hot seat for the first time, it was to be a confrontation with the extremist elements of the far left. For the dissident extremists concerned it was a chance to remove all Central Intelligence Agency members from the executive. For the faceless men in the gallery it was a chance to fill their HMSO note‐books: and for the majority of impartial observers it was a badly written farce. A hell of a way to run a travel agency.