I was chatting to my mum Vera Dirs, who turns 94 on Saturday, about the rise of Jeremy Corbyn. During the second world war she was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain and secretary to Professor Francis Camps, who was the pathologist at the Chelmsford Essex hospital. Mum explained that at the end of an autopsy all the various dissected organs needed to be put back in the body and rather than try and fit them back in where they came from, they would be put into the abdominal/chest cavity. This left the cranium empty though and apparently this made it difficult to suture up, so mum’s copy of the Daily Worker was called upon as the filler of convenience. Talk about getting your ideology in someone’s head.
Nick Dirs
Sydney, Australia
