steel er snillingur
Enn og aftur er mér illt í maganum vegna hláturskrampa sem fást við lestur á pistlum Mark Steel. Það sem hlægði mig mest nú var tillaga hans um að Beckham yrði látinn taka við New Labour af Gordon Brown.
What a cracking New Labour line he came up with on announcing his new 25 million quid-a-year job. He was taking it because of “the challenge of spreading football to America”. Just as slave traders went into business because of the challenge of spreading the joy of sugar-picking to Jamaica.
Og áfram heldur hann.
In some ways this is a British tradition, to be embarrassed about greed. Even during Thatcher’s reign, sportsmen who went to apartheid South Africa would make statements such as: “This is a tour that can help build the reforms needed in the community,” rather than: “Fuck me, I can buy a speedboat.”
And Tories would justify tax cuts because: “This will boost the economy”, rather than begin a political broadcast with “Yaaaahoooo - and bollocks to the Health Service - because I’m not ill.”
Annars má lesa alla pistla hans hér.