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17th April 2013
Politics, Uncategorized

The Blu Tack of History

            Jenny Diski‘s characteristically pithy LRB blog today on Thatcher’s funeral ends with a quote from Peter Hennessy: ‘More of Margaret Thatcher… will cling to the velcro of our collective memory than any other politician of recent times.’  Velcro’s far too suburban for Brighton, of course, where we prefer to camply flick about grotty balls…

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Che Guevara Jenny Diski Margaret Thatcher Peter Hennessy The Cowley Club Zizek

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