Continue reading Only the elite can afford to indulge their feelingsPeople in high life have all the luxuries to themselves – among others the luxury of indulging their feelings.
The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins, 1868
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Why should the dregs of our society act in a caring and decent manner when our self-seeking leaders don’t care about fairness and freedom?
GBH was a seven-part TV drama by Alan Bleasdale, set in a Northern town in the Thatcher years, broadcasted on Channel 4 in 1991.
In this scene Jim Nelson, the working class headmaster of a special school played by Michael Palin, sleepwalks out of his holiday caravan during a thunderstorm and crashes into a tree. Waking up on the ground in his pyjamas, soaked to the skin, he finds Grosvenor, the impoverished aristocratic owner of the caravan park played by Daniel Massey, appearing from the bushes wearing an oilskin jacket, miner’s helmet and lamp, sheltering under an umbrella with a half empty bottle of whisky under his arm.