Raving Provides

92 year old Daily Telegraph columnist/ ex editor WF Deedes launched a
sterling defence of club culture in October, suggesting staying out all night raving could prove to be excellent training for gallant young officers going off to fight in Iraq.

"As a frequenter of nightclubs in the 1930s, let me take the stand for a moment," the veteran reveller (who's nowadays a lifetime peer) pleaded.

"The hardest struggle in prolonged conflict is not being brave but staying awake, and this I found, is where we nightclubbers had the edge over fresh-faced young men, not long out of school and fit as fleas, who after a day and night without sleep, found it hard to keep their eyes open," Lord Deedes recalled.

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