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Richard Boston (29 December 1938 – 22 December 2006) was an English journalist and author, he was a rigorous dissenter and a belligerent pacifist. An anarchist, toper, raconteur, marathon runner and practical joker, he described his pastimes as "soothsaying, shelling peas and embroidery" and argued that Adam and Eve were the first anarchists "God gave them only one order and they promptly broke it". and brought up on a Kentish farm. He was educated at Stowe School, Regent Street Polytechnic and King's College, Cambridge. During the early 1960s he taught abroad in Sweden, Sicily and Paris.

Journalism

For more than 30 years Boston contributed to a range of newspapers, magazines and broadcast programmes. Initially, staff jobs included Peace News, New Society (since subsumed into the New Statesman) and the Times Literary Supplement (TLS), and he became known for an oddball but passionate take on the passing scene. From 1972 Boston was a freelance columnist, features and editorial writer on The Guardian.
Soon after starting he, with Michael McNay, cooked up the idea of a column about beer. Keg beers, with Red Barrel and Double Diamond leading the field, were being pushed on the unsuspecting beer drinker with wide coverage and high advertising budgets. These bland, sterile and gassy beers provided Aunt Sallies for his regular Saturday column in the Guardian "Boston on Beer", which started shortly after the launch of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA). Some regular readers might have been disappointed to hear that: "Despite all the talk of real ale, I've to say that, if ever I saw Richard in the village pub, he was usually drinking something stronger." .
In 1977 he founded the environmentalist magazine Vole.

Quotes

By Richard Boston

On his candidature in the 1994 European elections: It's a big trough and I want to get my nose in it.
On beer:
: Beer horrible stuff, mine's a pink gin. .
: Can't stand the stuff!:
1970. The press we deserve, edited by Richard Boston. London: Routledge & K. Paul. ISBN 0710068212.
1974. An anatomy of laughter. London: Collins. ISBN 0002160048.
1975. Ed. and introduction to: The admirable Urquhart : selected writings (Urquhart, Thomas, Sir, 1611-1660). London : Gordon Fraser Gallery. ISBN 0900406402.
1976. Beer and skittles. London: Collins. ISBN 0002160668.
1977. Baldness be my friend. London: Elm Tree Books. ISBN 0241897327.
1977. Forward to Little boxes: a selection of Bryan McAllister cartoons from ’The Guardian’. London: Guardian Newspapers. ISBN 0852650248.
1979. The little green book. edited by Richard Boston, Richard Holme and Richard North. London: Wildwood House. ISBN 0704503816.
1982. The C.O. Jones compendium of practical jokes. (Illustrated by Posy Simmonds). London: Enigma Books. ISBN 0727830031.
c1983. Forward to The Belchers: a strip cartoon from Vole magazine 1977-81, by Bryan Reading. Poole: Blandford. ISBN 0713713879.
c1985. Ed. The Busman’s prayer. (Illustrated by Blaise Thompson). Reading (The Old School, Aldworth): Foss & Hodge.
1986. Introduction to: With an eye to the future by Osbert Lancaster. London: Century. (Originally pub London: Murray (1953). ISBN 0712694676.
1987. Contribution to: A Decade of Anarchy (1961-70), ed Colin Ward. London: Freedom Press. ISBN 0900384379.
1989. Osbert: a portrait of Osbert Lancaster. London: Collins. ISBN 0002163241.
1994. Boudu saved from drowning (Boudu sauvé des eaux). London: BFI Publishing. ISBN 0851704670.
1995. Essay in The Raven, No 30: New Life to the Land?. London: Freedom Press.
1997. Starkness at noon. Nottingham: Five Leaves Publications. ISBN 0907123325.
2003. Essay in A Country Diary Clifford Harper, by Clifford Harper. Agraphia Press. ISBN 1-904596-00-2.

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