Thursday, April 29, 2021 4:00 AM James David Gray, perpetual optimist, fun dad, soccer aficionado, golf enthusiast, confidant, hardworking gentleman, and a million other beautiful things, died on April 18, 2021, following a life well-lived.
Mr. Gray was born in Markdale, Ontario, Canada, the first son of Eileen and Goldie Gray.
His father, the town doctor, was the attending Physician to his birth. Mr. Gray was rarely believed when he told this story, until he proved it on his long-form birth certificate. This was the beginning of his colorful life and knack for storytelling.
Mr. Gray, only younger to sister, Christy, had the dubious task of setting an example for his three younger siblings: Barbara, Billy, and Barry. His young boy pranks included eating prized fruit from Mr. Lucas’s tree, reflecting a beam of sunlight into Mr. Steer’s living room and mishaps with a BB gun and hand-crafted bow and arrow. These events became legends, and thankfully
Boris Johnson has double standards on the IRA
on historic admissions
Roy Greenslade, the former editor of the Daily Mirror and a journalism ethics professor, revealed he was a silent supporter of the Provisional IRA in an “unrepentant admission” featured in the British Journalism Review this week, writes David Aaronovitch in The Times. “Yet,” says Aaronovitch, “such is the character of the prime minister that I couldn’t help wondering whether, had Greenslade become an enthusiastic Brexiteer late in his career, he might have avoided the condemnation and won instead a seat in the House of Lords.” That’s what happened last summer when Claire Fox, formerly of the Irish Freedom Movement, became Baroness Fox. “So IRA-supporting Greenslade is to be condemned but the even more IRA-supporting Fox is to be ennobled. And why?” asks Aaronovitch. “It’s simple: Johnson doesn’t care and he and his coterie don’t think you care either.”