Peter Thomas talks to a press room veteran with a world of good stories to tell
Every job has its lesser days and we all have to grin and bear it from time to time. There’s the cancelled commuter train and the interminable meeting, the lockdown Zoom debacle and the annual appraisal – and then there’s a job like Colin Mackenzie’s.
Mackenzie was a ‘hack’ – an old-school journalist of the finest sort – but he was a hack of many different colours and if there was ever a dull moment in his career it must surely have been short and instantly forgettable amid the flurries of animation and excitement.