- Loose
tongues and liberty
- Edited version of a lecture delivered at the
Hay Festival last month - 'One
of the reasons we despise politicians is that we suspect they are
speaking on their own behalf while purporting to speak on ours. Our
words, being handed on by our representatives, are not getting through
and they never will. Our speaking makes not a jot of
difference. One way of looking at globalisation, for instance, is
to say that it is a version of certain Orwellian authorities saying the
same thing, over and over, the attempt being to keep new words, or any
human doubt, need or creativity, out of the system'
- ( Hanif Kureishi via
Guardian )
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- Following the lecture, Kureishi reportedly expanded on its themes by
denouncing Tony Blair's New Labour government as 'fascistic,
corporate-style McLabour' - see this
Guardian
coverage
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- See also this
audio
stream
(39min
ASX) of the lecture
