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Russell Brand on Margaret Thatcher
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This is currently trending on Twitter, and attracting rave reviews:
http://m.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/apr/09/russell-brand-margaret-thatcher
It really is an excellent (if long) piece, and I feel that it can be appreciated for its eloquence and capacity to conjure up a general mood, even if one doesn't share Brand's political stance.
http://m.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/apr/09/russell-brand-margaret-thatcher
It really is an excellent (if long) piece, and I feel that it can be appreciated for its eloquence and capacity to conjure up a general mood, even if one doesn't share Brand's political stance.
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Not that I'll read it. The man is too affectatious for me to be able to take seriously.
Hypocrite.
I'm around his age group and feel very much the same about much he writes there.
He's bang on about her being an individualist not a feminist.
Most of all though he does give a sense of the aura of the place around that time or at least as I remember it too. A lot of it as well not really tangible in the sense that one can stick it in a for or against discussion about Thatcher, but if you were there, you'd know fully too well that harrowing feeling. There was a real oppressive feel about the place under her, and an authoritarian one too.
Many of my childhood memories of the television around that time are of seeing groups of people set upon by police men with sticks. I think that says it all.
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I read it and i don't agree with his opinion.
Completely agree, he has the ability to irritate the hell out of me with some of his posturing, but when you strip away the deliberate jibber jabber he can be articulate and insightful. I wish we saw more of this side of him tbh
The opposite of feminism is masochism, and if Thatcher had been asked if women should enjoy fewer rights than men she would have given an equivocal "no" - no woman would give any other answer, and that is what makes a feminist regardless of the label they choose for themselves.
It's also absurd to make a differentiation between individualism and feminism because for a woman to succeed as an individual, her path first needs to be paved by feminism, so the two are intimately linked.
He would have been four years old when she came in to office.
No, the translation is 'I haven't read it because I couldn't care less what that berk thinks about anything.'
Your memories are distorted along with all your views.
I think you could invest in a dictionary.
You should read it. He's very clever, very insightful.
Don't believe what the daily mail say about him.
I did read it - and was surprised at how eloquent it was - normally I cannot stand Russell Brand it was however well written. Don't agree with everything he said however - like most of the left he kind of missed the point when Mrs Thatcher said 'There is no such thing as society' But then again even New Labour confuses the State with the rest of the society.
The Unions had the country on its knees, the people in "Ireland" as he calls it weren't just neighbours like he says but physical force Republicans willing to bomb and shoot to a United Ireland.
He also forgets the country was on its knees in 1979, rubbish not being collected and dead bodies not being buried. Some people have been rewriting history so far since she died.
So rather than stick to facts you also decide to exaggerate things? I was around then and things could be grim, but it simply wasn't the case that the country was on its knees. There were a few notable strikes that impacted many people, but most had little or no impact on anyone other than the company and workers involved.