The Revival of the Blacksmith’s Craft — A New Generation Goes at It Hammer and Tongs
26th December 2021
At Intelligent Life, the Economist magazine where I worked for some years, it was easy to feel intellectually challenged. Even the interns all seemed to have Oxbridge Firsts. What a breath of fresh air, then, when the deputy editor’s son decided he didn’t want to go to university, and would instead apprentice as a blacksmith.
As legitimate an ambition as ‘aspiring rapper’, and probably more remunerative.