The Seals Of Dimblebore
Here's an evening's slightly masochistic amusement for people who are no longer of an age and constitution to play the Withnail and I drinking game. Sit down and watch "Question Time" on the BBC, and try to applaud every time the audience does, for an equal length of time and with equal intensity. I guarantee that you will end the show with a pair of hands looking like two lumps of Sainsbury's "Value Pack" rump steak. Why does that audience applaud so much, often at quite transparently idiotic points? The Max Atkinson politicians' trick bag can only explain part of it. I think that as a nation, we're just getting more clappy.
I tell you what though, playing that game introduced me to an entirely new experience - that of being glad that Harriet Harman was speaking.
http://www.matthewturner.co.uk/Blog/2004/11/old-man-rant.html
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ReplyDeletenot sure where to contact you, but I wanted to ask you about something.
Could you recommend any reading about the failures of the post-war economic settlement by the mid-70s from a liberal-left perspective?
errr ... not really. I remember reading one or two of them while I was at university, but the only one whose title stuck in my mind was "Britain's Economic Problem: Not Enough Producers", which was written from a neoliberal right perspective. Robin Ramsay's "The Rise Of New Labour" is pretty good from a far-left perspective, but that's it really.
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