I skimmed a lot of this up to 21:40 when he got to 2020 which seemed closer to the issue of death of freedom, and not so slow.
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Peter clearly had a more bourgeois early life experience than I had - even including the period in his Angry Young Man time as a revolutionary Marxist, which is a commonplace indulgence amongst the uni-congregating children of the already-comfortable.
Quite honestly though, his vision of a more spacious, admirable Britain in the earlier time is more than a touch rose-tinted, not one that my parents, aunts, uncles and grand-parents, working-class plebeians all, would recognise.
And he has, I think, a big blind spot when it comes to the standard-issue villainy of the English empire. That was a foul criminal enterprise from its remotest origins, and - in it’s decrepit end-time right now - still is. Mostly via the City’s globe-looting cess-pit, and the attack-dogs-for-hire military these days. Peter may have difficulty recognising any of this - possibly… But then again, melancholy flashes of his youthful radicalism still seem to surface now and then. Can’t disagree with his conclusion, though, that on the whole things have got worse for us, via creeping authoritarianism.
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Astonishing how the war on the Nanny State ended up in a Prime Minister instructing us how to wash our hands. I say “ended up” but that seems like a long time ago already… where we’re being herded doesn’t seem like such a great place.
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Hi @KarenEliot
- still if we have to learn about washing our hands who better to inform us than Mr. Don’t-blame-me Pfiffle!
cheers
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