Disculpen que me salga del tema, pero puede interesarles.
En un artículo en The Spectator (no disponoble sin subscripción) acerca de un "grupo conservador de debate filosófico", activohasta hace 15 años, se menciona una reunión a la que asistió Thatcher y en la que mantuvo un diálogo con Enoch Powell. Copio fragmento: Mrs Thatcher said (in effect) that Norman had shown that the Bomb was necessary for the defence of our values. Powell: ‘No, we do not fight for values. I would fight for this country even if it had a communist government.’ Thatcher (it was just before the Argentinian invasion of the Falklands): ‘Nonsense, Enoch. If I send British troops abroad, it will be to defend our values.’ ‘No, Prime Minister, values exist in a transcendental realm, beyond space and time. They can neither be fought for, nor destroyed.’ Mrs Thatcher looked utterly baffled. She had just been presented with the difference between Toryism and American Republicanism. (Mr Blair would have been equally baffled.)
Claudio.
ResponderEliminarDisculpen que me salga del tema, pero puede interesarles.
En un artículo en The Spectator (no disponoble sin subscripción) acerca de un "grupo conservador de debate filosófico", activohasta hace 15 años, se menciona una reunión a la que asistió Thatcher y en la que mantuvo un diálogo con Enoch Powell.
Copio fragmento:
Mrs Thatcher said (in effect) that Norman had shown that the Bomb was necessary for the defence of our values. Powell: ‘No, we do not fight for values. I would fight for this country even if it had a communist government.’ Thatcher (it was just before the Argentinian invasion of the Falklands): ‘Nonsense, Enoch. If I send British troops abroad, it will be to defend our values.’ ‘No, Prime Minister, values exist in a transcendental realm, beyond space and time. They can neither be fought for, nor destroyed.’ Mrs Thatcher looked utterly baffled. She had just been presented with the difference between Toryism and American Republicanism. (Mr Blair would have been equally baffled.)
¡Que joya! La guardaré como una joya.
ResponderEliminarMuchas gracias, Claudio.
Impresionante el diálogo. Gracias.
ResponderEliminarVaya, siempre tropezando con espejos de mi propio conservadurismo (Toryism, en este caso).
ResponderEliminarLola
Wulfeard the White se pregunta: "Why hold up a placard like this, whilst holding a Gay Rainbow flag in the other hand?"
ResponderEliminarCensurar a un gay es como robar a un ciego. Un acto de intrínseca y absoluta maldad, judeocristiana por supuesto.
ResponderEliminarUna frase popular le vendría bien a quien(es) figuran en la foto:
ResponderEliminar"Esperate sentadito, que de pie te vai a cansar".
Poco elegante pero realista.