Angry in company
The question was posed many times in the past few months: What will we do with all this time when we repeal? But the announcement was not even out long enough for the tears of relief to have started to dry when the restlessness set in. Where next with this broken world?
No woman is an island
“Happiness is within,” so the self-help books say. But what is self-help if the self needs help, reaching out and away for respite, for togetherness? Sure happiness must be within when the outside and beyond is cold and lonely, bills unpaid and children hungry, wombs a battlefield and homes hollow as ghosts. You must find strength within to get up early in the morning, pay your taxes, look after your own, never complain – good man. When there’s no such thing as society and Thatcher rests in peace, take a deep breath, try yoga.