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In his weekly The Bar Man column, Jeff Hoyle discusses the CAMRA conference… Some people mellow with age, but not Steve. Five years ago, when we went up to Dundee for the CAMRA members’ weekend, he asked us to boo loudly at the headquarters of DC Thompson, the publishers responsible for the Beano amongst other things. This time we were requested to burn the place down. I sensibly, I think, confined myself to booing once again. Why the requests? Steve was editor of a magazine called This England, which majors in nostalgia for an England long gone, or perhaps for one that never existed and was d…