Perhaps I shouldn't have wrote 'it all makes me feel under as if under
attack' - it should have been something like 'it all makes me and a lot of
other people I know feel as if under attack' which is more accurate - it's
not just my personal situation and/or feelings but I wrote so because
they're not on this list to substantiate that. The introduction of Rupert
Murdoch was by analogy, I'd rather not think too much about him, although
the other week on the Today programme a presenter said, apropos of the Sun
newspaper, and the decline of newspaper sales, that now, decades after its
re-launch under Rupert, its aim of 'depoliticising the working class and
substituting a culture of celebrity and sport and money for that of
political opposition' had succeeded, so 'its job was done', my quote is as
near to verbatim as memory permits, which wasn't put contentiously, but went
without objection or comment, in the way of this being an accepted given
truth of life, just as the other week (again) on the same programme a
spokesman for the CBI casually mentioned the necessity of maintaining a
large pool of unemployed to control the labour force, well, of course, these
things are of no consequence, and who cares?
On 5 May 2010 09:23, Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 09:16 +0100, David Bircumshaw wrote:
> > ?
> Dave, consider your self very lucky.
>
> I could go on... having sat in the same philosophy seminar as another A
> lister who Nicole Kidman kept eyeing off in some hollywood film.
>
> Why is it that I feel as though living through a fourth edition of a
> naked civil servant along with a myra breckinridge.
>
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