Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, 2024 parliamentary candidate for North Durham, 2028 candidate for Mayor of the North East Mayoral Combined Authority, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", banned from Twitter so officially more dangerous than the Taliban, eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Thursday 21 April 2011
Golden Something, All Right
The Mayor of Berlin was repeatedly patronised by David Goldblatt on Radio Four this morning. "In English, we say, turning a blind eye" might be all right, since it might go back to Nelson, although it might not. But, "In English, we say, killing the goose that laid the golden egg"? Oh, yes. Aesop was English. Wasn't he?
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