Michael Del­blond

Even the dyed-in-the-wool PN­Mite Lord Kitch­en­er, who had even­tu­al­ly treat­ed some­what sym­pa­thet­i­cal­ly with the Black Pow­er phe­nom­e­non, was vis­i­bly rat­tled when Dr Williams, re­port­ed­ly, cold­ly ac­cost­ed him with, "Mr Roberts, I see that you've been singing some in­ter­est­ing songs these days." Was it a sub­tle hint that Kitch had fall­en out of favour with the great man? I stood in my shoes and won­dered!