Spontaneous Musings

I once pointed out that the reforms of the 1960s around abortion legalisation, decriminalisation of homosexuality, etc in UK, were nothing to do with the actual 60s sexual liberation generation - it was actually because people who had been a mocked minority since the 20s/30s, regarded as funny harmless eccentrics at best, dangerous communist agitators at worst, had got to a point where they had influence (e.g. were in the Labour Government of the time). While their 'weird ideas' had gradually ceased to be wild out-there notions and come to look reasonable because they had got them discussed.