Yes, she knows her onions. She has been prominent in pro-choice campaigns & is often asked for a quote by the national press, and she always gives the right quote, makes the right point.
But I have never trusted her. I remember, for example, going to a talk by a veteran pro-choice campaigner and watching her carefully but forcefully take it over, as if it was her everyone had come to listen to.
It's this that defines the RCP for me - they've always been one of those groups that's more interested in winning arguments than in genuine discourse (contrary to their late adoption of the 'ban nothing, question everything' slogan). It's an authoritarian impulse which is what I feel destroyed the British left in the 80s.
It's good that Ann knows what she's talking about when the media contact her, but there are people much more deserving of being in that position.
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Yes, she knows her onions. She has been prominent in pro-choice campaigns & is often asked for a quote by the national press, and she always gives the right quote, makes the right point.
But I have never trusted her. I remember, for example, going to a talk by a veteran pro-choice campaigner and watching her carefully but forcefully take it over, as if it was her everyone had come to listen to.
It's this that defines the RCP for me - they've always been one of those groups that's more interested in winning arguments than in genuine discourse (contrary to their late adoption of the 'ban nothing, question everything' slogan). It's an authoritarian impulse which is what I feel destroyed the British left in the 80s.
It's good that Ann knows what she's talking about when the media contact her, but there are people much more deserving of being in that position.