Children

[Leo]

I imagine parents wouldn't normally talk politics with their children, but last week was different. this wasn't just some arcane policy decision, it was a riot that was covered wall-to-wall on the news and social media.

 

[luka]

You overhear a lot as a child.

 

[luka]

I assume that's how I knew Thatcher always a wicked witch.

 

[john eden]

My parents told me Nelson Mandela was a terrorist.

 

[luka]

I got taken to marches in support of the ANC. It was like being raised by John Eden actually.

 

[Murphy]

We were taught Unionist paramilitaries bought their arms from Boks and this proved correct.

 

[john eden]

I got taken to marches in support of the ANC. It was like being raised by John Eden actually.

A good grounding in life! My daughter was on the big anti-Iraq war march and the smaller anti-war in Afghanistan one when she was a baby. And a few things since.

 

[luka]

My parents probably drifted closer to the centre with Blair and the rest of the country although they were never radicals. Activists but not radicals. My mum still does stuff but it's not political any more. Just charitable.

 

[Murphy]

A good grounding in life! My daughter was on the big anti-Iraq war march and the smaller anti-war in Afghanistan one when she was a baby. And a few things since.

Strange climate in the 70’s and 80’s with Mrs T and

 

[john eden]

@WashYourHands a different world! I do remember feeling uneasy about a lot of this stuff at the time and assumed for a while it was just me being a weirdo.

 

[DannyL]

My parents told me Nelson Mandela was a terrorist.

My old man was a lifelong leftie. I think he was a Communist when younger, used to sing the Red Flag and cry or so he said.. I met the guy who'd I think radicalised once, a Labour historian of the Caribbean (Richard Hart). He was never involved in organised politics in any sense though, in this country - thank fuck. I'm grateful for my childhood memories not being stuffed with terrible activists and afternoons at dreary fundraisers.

 

[DannyL]

What was weird was you had a group of people actively trying to kill the government and succeeding sometimes.

 

[DannyL]

I remember reading Alan Clarke's Diaries and the Proddies bumped off his mate, Ian Gow. He was met at the barriers at whatever station he'd commuted into. After they told h said "how terribly spiteful of them". Weird to think about that as a backdrop to politics.

 

[Murphy]

Brighton, Tebbit grimacing (not laughing here)

 

[luka]

Rotorscoping

 

[sus]

I don't think anything else can have the same instant massively transformative effect of psychedelics. Nothing you can reliably procure at any rate. Otherwise you're limited to a more gradual lifting yourself out of the sludge with the usual dreary but ultimately rewarding good habits

it's more expensive, but try having children

 

[DannyL]

Brighton, Tebbit grimacing (not laughing here)

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Killed his wife, didn't they?

 

[DannyL]

No she actually only died last year - paralysed from the neck down though.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Strange climate in the 70’s and 80’s with Mrs T and

One of my all-time favourite Day Today bits, that.

 

[muser]

I bet it took a lot of takes