Middle class and militant or just plain stupid?
Thursday, February 28, 2008 The Telegraph's Iain Martin may have been a bit sniffy about the Heathrow protesters stealing IWAR's thunder (see below), but it didn't stop the paper from featuring a large photograph of one of the five demonstrators on its front page.
And no wonder! Smartly dressed in a Paisley-print blouse, Tamsin Omond, 23, fits the new-look Telegraph like a glove. A former Westminster School pupil who graduated with a First in English Literature from Trinity College, Cambridge, I predict that Tamsin has a great future - not as a member of the "climate action group" Plane Stupid, but as the Telegraph's new eco worrier. (You read it here first.)
Meanwhile another member of Plane Stupid, Graham Thompson, 34, is described as a "veteran campaigner". I shall be 49 on Sunday. What does that make me??? All I can say is, thank God for all the old codgers supporting the I Want A Referendum campaign. They make a middle-aged man feel just a little younger!
Reader Comments (1)
Many Happy Returns, Simon. Do all the things that HMG hates: eat too much, drink too much, drive too fast (you could even pretend that you smoke by producing a cigar IN AN ENCLOSED PUBLIC SPACE and toy with the idea of lighting it!) and have a bloody good time!