tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903281042242791813.post75241241867189180..comments2024-03-26T15:02:07.811-04:00Comments on Socialist Standard Past & Present: Political Notes: Shirley Williams agony (1981)Imposs1904http://www.blogger.com/profile/04043116442576404667noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903281042242791813.post-1263067746926569472020-01-11T09:47:27.749-05:002020-01-11T09:47:27.749-05:00"For beneath those shapeless dresses and scar...<i>"For beneath those shapeless dresses and scarecrow hair . . . "</i><br /><br /><i>"Poor Denis Thatcher, bearing the brunt of the Prime Minister’s frustrations . . ."</i><br /><br />For fuck's sake who wrote these passages? And I've just scanned in - from the <b>same</b> issue of the Socialist Standard - an article about sexual violence. <br /><br />1981. I repeat, 1981.<br /><br /><i>"if Foot ever gets to be Prime Minister, he will go to Buckingham Palace and try to kiss the Queen’s hands dressed in one of his donkey jackets."</i><br /><br />Turns out that the Socialist Standard had a fashion correspondent all those years ago, and I had no idea.Imposs1904https://www.blogger.com/profile/04043116442576404667noreply@blogger.com