Admittedly he lost me when he started having a go at trans people. Hard case to make when your whole thing is pretending to be a wizard.

I remember him telling a student journalist friend of mine how dangerous it is to start believing your own bullshit. That was 30-odd years ago and it was pretty clear even then that he was not interested in taking his own advice.

Is that really him? He must be pushing 90 by now

Yes. He’s 92.

So depressing. He can no longer see that he got to be the Wizard because people tolerated his eccentricity. But no empathy flowing back. Guess there’s a giant ego in the way.

He went further off the deep end quite a few years ago. Should name a new, official wizard just so he can't have the title anymore.

Oh no. Oh no.

His last funny moment was actually in May 1987; beautiful blue sky above us and students on a pub crawl spilled out of the United Services and he riffed something amusing about youth being wasted on the young. But as he spoke a chill wind swept the Square and we all knew that was his Last Joke. Sad.

Would that have been that Back To School Ppub Crawl by any chance? I don't remember the Wizard, or much else for that matter

A "Square Mile" :-)

Ah, I'd forgotten that one

The "Anglo Saxon?" Really?? So tired of this White Supremacy b***s**t.