Comments on: Neglect your political husbandry and parasites will creep in http://www.biggrandejatte.co.uk/smallbeds/?p=1520 An occasional column, composed by a surprised but unrepenting ex-academic, dissecting Oxford, the web and the whole of creation, piece by bloody piece Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:34:44 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: sbalb http://www.biggrandejatte.co.uk/smallbeds/?p=1520&cpage=1#comment-4269 sbalb Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:39:21 +0000 http://www.biggrandejatte.co.uk/smallbeds/?p=1520#comment-4269 I feel utterly ambivalent about Mandelson. I like the idea of him because he's (a) intelligent (b) foolish in that way that intelligent people are when they get too cocky, and (c) more or less open about his sexuality, despite being in a thumpingly heterosexual environment. Broadly speaking, if revolutions were to happen I would always side with the unhealthy, weakling intelligentsia. But in the same way that Thatcher utterly discarded all the political interests of her largely oppressed gender when she came to power---and was far worse in many ways than the man she was pretending to be might have been---or in the same way that George Galloway can rouse the desire to punch his face off in even his core supporter group---Mandelson does the reputation of his own demographics no favours at all by being such an awful, scheming, smarmy, manipulative shit. I feel utterly ambivalent about Mandelson. I like the idea of him because he’s (a) intelligent (b) foolish in that way that intelligent people are when they get too cocky, and (c) more or less open about his sexuality, despite being in a thumpingly heterosexual environment. Broadly speaking, if revolutions were to happen I would always side with the unhealthy, weakling intelligentsia.

But in the same way that Thatcher utterly discarded all the political interests of her largely oppressed gender when she came to power—and was far worse in many ways than the man she was pretending to be might have been—or in the same way that George Galloway can rouse the desire to punch his face off in even his core supporter group—Mandelson does the reputation of his own demographics no favours at all by being such an awful, scheming, smarmy, manipulative shit.

]]> By: Brennig http://www.biggrandejatte.co.uk/smallbeds/?p=1520&cpage=1#comment-4267 Brennig Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:45:08 +0000 http://www.biggrandejatte.co.uk/smallbeds/?p=1520#comment-4267 Thanks for the info. Mandy is such an... interesting person. Thanks for the info. Mandy is such an… interesting person.

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