Stewart Dakers obituary

My friend Stewart Dakers, who has died of cancer aged 86, was best known to Guardian readers as the writer of its Grey Matters column, which ran from 1999 to 2020. Stewart mined his experience of community work with senior citizens to record their reflections on today’s world and shared his belief that older people should continue to engage with politics.As an active volunteer, Stewart made a real difference in his home town of Farnham, in Surrey. It was more than 40 years ago that he foun