Like almost all anti-establishment figures who died before their time, Bill's premature death

served to seal his reputation as an almost godlike figure. Easy to be cynical about that of course,
but also worth remembering that to be timeless you need a special something in the first place.
Bill was no saint, no genius, and his arguments were not always as watertight as they might at
first have appeared. But reading his material 16 years on - and reflecting on everything that's
happened since