Chris
i didn't specify but all I was pulling back on was my description of Ford
as 'an indifferent novelist' which was unfair. My anger at the way Ford's
fantasies were being projected in a BBC programme remains unabated.
On 26 August 2012 08:04, Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> David, I don't know the full thing where you are, but don't pull back too
> much. I live on a pension and I will fight to the death for the right to
> state welfare, even if this means I cannot afford to drink alcoholic
> liquids or smoke various types of substances. (I may well pay for
> dia-morhine, however, since provision of pain relief to in severe chronic
> disabling pain is denied, even if a breach of international law and human
> rights.)
>
>
> On 26/08/12 16:17, David Bircumshaw wrote:
>
>> I was
>> unfair on Ford yesterday, but the way that the production highlighted
>> views
>> on state welfare which are a decidedly 'hot issues' now made me very
>> angry.
>> Uncool of me that but human. Stoppard I know was an admirer of Thatcher
>> and
>> i believe has a good opinion of David Cameron.
>>
>
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