So far - interview of the year. Listened after a long day - so excuse me if I miss the odd observation. Distilling an hour - I’d say (for what it’s worth) the Miri Finch quote is key: “If you know their name - they’re in the game”. Controlled opposition is a frequent topic of lively debate under our roof. Who is trustworthy is perhaps societies biggest challenge?
So - the closure of 15k UK pubs is bad - but, in the same way Charles M. Schultz used to say “a church is potentially wherever people hang out together”, I’d say a pub is wherever people connect with each other’s world. One trite example is a lovely Indian lady cashier in our local supermarket. For some reason I/we keep bumping into her in various places to the point where suggesting meeting for a coffee might be in order. The brief conversations we’ve had suggest we are massively on the same page & like one another. But - our worlds are ‘different’, or are they?
People (as you eluded to) are siloed everywhere - whether in corporate companies, the civil service, health, trades & that’s what the Spanish ghost town set want!
Take heart - when they retire to ‘billionaire town’ - after a few hours they’ll be a frantic fight between them over who cleans the toilet & cuts the hedges - and in the case of nature - it’s way smarter than all of them - and a Chinese made robotic servant won’t cut it long term.
WW2 didn’t go as planned, so S.G Warburg stood up in the UN in 1950 and stated the world needed one government.
Here we are. They are (indeed) deranged arseholes.
Talk much more amongst yourselves & turn off the idiot box.
Barbra Streisand was right. People who need people are the luckiest people.
Just brilliant Jeff. Looking forward to your novel. Be well.
Many thanks Trevor. I hope to be in London in July. Hope we can get together for a chinwag.
So far - interview of the year. Listened after a long day - so excuse me if I miss the odd observation. Distilling an hour - I’d say (for what it’s worth) the Miri Finch quote is key: “If you know their name - they’re in the game”. Controlled opposition is a frequent topic of lively debate under our roof. Who is trustworthy is perhaps societies biggest challenge?
So - the closure of 15k UK pubs is bad - but, in the same way Charles M. Schultz used to say “a church is potentially wherever people hang out together”, I’d say a pub is wherever people connect with each other’s world. One trite example is a lovely Indian lady cashier in our local supermarket. For some reason I/we keep bumping into her in various places to the point where suggesting meeting for a coffee might be in order. The brief conversations we’ve had suggest we are massively on the same page & like one another. But - our worlds are ‘different’, or are they?
People (as you eluded to) are siloed everywhere - whether in corporate companies, the civil service, health, trades & that’s what the Spanish ghost town set want!
Take heart - when they retire to ‘billionaire town’ - after a few hours they’ll be a frantic fight between them over who cleans the toilet & cuts the hedges - and in the case of nature - it’s way smarter than all of them - and a Chinese made robotic servant won’t cut it long term.
WW2 didn’t go as planned, so S.G Warburg stood up in the UN in 1950 and stated the world needed one government.
Here we are. They are (indeed) deranged arseholes.
Talk much more amongst yourselves & turn off the idiot box.
Barbra Streisand was right. People who need people are the luckiest people.
Nice weekends all…
Great stuff!