A champion of justice reform: Vale Mervyn Langford

I write this as a memorial, a celebration of my friend, Mervyn Langford, who died on 14 July 2024.

I first met Mervyn Langford in the early 1970s when we were both draft resisters, opposing conscription for the Vietnam War. But Mervyn's political roots went back far earlier than that.

Merv's first political ca