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No Wheels Good
Two quotes of the day for the price of one this Friday:
First up, here's Jeff Randall on Britain's Donorgate scandal:
"Gordon Brown's premiership has become the Trabant of British politics: we had to wait 10 years for delivery, then it fell apart after less than six months."
Jeff himself says he rips the arse out of the analogy before too long, but as a one-liner, it's great.
And, in the same paper, we find an interesting discussion on what happens to artists when they age and drift to the right.
Former Smiths singer Morrissey is in the papers again, thanks to an interview with teen music magazine NME. While decrying the idiocy of racism, Morrissey apparently complained about how Britain's open gates policy has left the nation utterly changed. The magazine took this as a confession of racism and, despite warnings from the singer's legal team, printed a revised version of the interview.
Is it any surprise that the middle-aged Morrissey - now living in Rome - shares views with the dozens of Daily Mail readers who wrote in his defence (many of them, too, expats)?
Here's Harry Mount:
"To paraphrase Churchill, if you're not a Labour voter when you're a 25-year-old unemployed pop singer, you have no heart. If you're not a Conservative by the time you're a middle-aged superstar, you have a very good accountant."
