Friday, June 30, 2006

Walker's World: British politics and sexBy Martin Walker / World Peace Herald, 29 June 2006

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"Something very odd has happened to British political discourse, and to what we might call standards in the British media. Last week, David Cameron, the new leader of the Conservative party, was asked by an interviewer on BBC-TV, whether he had ever masturbated to sexual fantasies about Margaret Thatcher. This week, Margaret Beckett, the new foreign secretary, revealed to an interviewer from The Times, that when she was offered the job last month by the prime minister, her response was to utter "a four-letter word beginning with F."