The memorial service for former Times editor Charlie Wilson (1935-2022), reported in this magazine (page 44), was also a memorial for old Fleet Street, and the days when editors and proprietors appeared to count for something.
Nowadays, the under-40s scarcely ever buy a newspaper, and those who read the papers online are probably in a minority. Like the Church of England, the trade-union movement and the monarchy, the press is on its last legs.
Obviously, as an old journalist, I find this sad.
