I should have put this up ages ago. Its an exchange between Guardian journalist John Harris and Times journalist David Aaronovitch. Its a debate about the future of the left in which David calls me eccentric and then brilliantly says that I’m the ‘Mary Whitehouse of shopping’. I should be so lucky David. The debate starts here but dies because you need to subscribe to the magazine – which is fair enough. Mary, if you are old enough to remember, was a thorn in the side of what she perceived to be permissive broadcasting. I’m not sure what effect she had – but everyone knew who she was. I’m not really sure I want that – but I’d settle for being a thorn in the side of turbo-consumerism.
Well, I wait in eager anticipation for a political comedy show called The Neal Lawson Experience.