In 1996 Tony Blair would tell Sue Lawley, host of Desert Island Discs, how “In My Life” by the Beatles reminded him of his father. “All positions of power are lonely places, how lonely are you finding yours?” she would retort. When Margaret Thatcher was Roy Plomley’s “castaway” in 1978 she would explain that music – Verdi, Mendelssohn – was a pressure valve from the otherwise “logical life” she was always trained to lead.
Anyway, I just watched two hours of Rupert Lowe – the Norfolk MP, Reform-defector, Farage-gadfly, leader of Restore Britain (polling 4.5 per cent) – in conversation with Joe Rogan. At one point Rogan misattributed a quote – “If you’re not a liberal at 20, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative by 35, you have no brain.” – to Winston Churchill. Lowe did not correct him. The conversation meandered from vaccine injury to the healing properties of horse tranquiliser, Ivermectin.
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