Clive James' A Point of View - Sir Keith Park

[Eric Mc]

This week's edition is worth a listen.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/p/radio/

[heebeegeetee]

I heard that, it was brilliant i thought. Any idea who the journo he's referring to is?

[Eric Mc]

Not at the moment. It might be worth a search on the net.

[heebeegeetee]

Hmm. .

http://opinion.independentminds.livejournal.com/13...

(scroll down)

[pacman1]

I've always liked Clive James, and here he is, an antipodean, once again redressing the balance for us.

Clive James said:

...And right there, of course, is the catch in freedom. If you're born free you're free to think that freedom is a natural state, and free to think that your own freedom owes nothing to some gung-ho old dead guy with a rack of initials after his name.

Until I read this thread, I can genuinely say that I'd never heard of Mary Wakefield.

[Eric Mc]

Whatever about young people not needing sex education lessons, it seems that Mary needs some history lessons - or, as Clive James suggested, maybe she should just watch the movie "Battle of Britain".

Edited by Eric Mc on Sunday 15th November 12:06

[Tycho]

BBC website article by Clive James about this subject

[jmorgan]

Flippin eck. At least she could have found out what it was all about instead of dismiss it out of hand and spout drivel.

[pacman1]

I wonder what Sir Keith Park would make of today's British Citizenship test?
Indeed, he'd probably wonder why he and countless others bothered to risk their lives for this country.

[Eric Mc]

Sir Keith would probably have to pass the test to enable him to take up residency here.