By: Steve Gray

Steve Gray
Thu, 28 Sep 2023 21:20:12 +0000

I referred to the idea of ‘cancellation-by-taste’, a subtle and suburban kind of cancel-culture, in the vein of U/Non-U . Think Pierre Bourdieu.

There’s nothing overt, just a sense of ‘It’s not really US, though, is it ?’ a la Margo Ledbetter. I suspect that kind of analysis was a bit too clever for ’em.

Whlle they were wondering what that smoke was over there, spectating, I was busy agitating. I can’t take anything more than an an isty-bitsy bit of Brendan’s congratulations. But the bit of it that is mine is, indeed, all mine. And, for what it’s worth, I’m proud of that. There’s a first time for everything !

I’m under no illusions that the likes of Fraser and Paul Embo can politics me under-the-table but, as we’ve seen, they’re ‘Roisin who ? ‘ Thankfully, Brendan seems to have been as pissed off as myself about this, whilst having what he has to draw upon, when it comes to doing authoritative things.

By contrast, I might not have been a great leader-of-men (or women) but I stuck to my task and did my best to galvanise the people I encountered, lending them my support, as I’ve seen others do, in my time.