Quote of the day
Good authors, too, who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose —
Anything goes.
Ken Coates
Born: September 16, 1930
Died: June 27, 2010 (aged 79)
Bio: Kenneth Sidney Coates was a British politician and writer. He chaired the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation and edited The Spokesman, the BRPF magazine launched in March 1970. He was a Labour Party Member of the European Parliament from 1989 to 1999.
Known for:
- Best Left As Indians (1991)
- Empire No More! (2004)
- The Marshall Decision and Native Rights (2000)
- The sinking of the Princess Sophia
- Beyond wage slavery (1977)