Che – it’s late at night. Don’t you and your other logins ever sleep?
“Aye Fred, a woman breaks down all the political barriers, defeats the glass ceiling, brings an end to the cold war and the constant threat of Nuclear annihilation,”
That’s an impressive feat – I had no idea that sexism in the workplace ended in 1979 when Thatcher won the election. The Equal Opportunities Commission presumably hasn’t had much to do on women for nigh on 30 years now. I guess that works in the same way that there’s no more racism in the US now that Obama is President, right?
Also, like a fool I had imagined that the end of the Cold War was something to do with the collapse of the Soviet economy, nationalism in the Baltic and Caucasian republics and Central Europe, the failed Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, perestroika and the rise of environmental activist groups. I now realise that it was all down to Maggie – an especially impressive success when you consider that none of the UK/US intelligence agencies predicted the USSR’s collapse or the reunification of Germany…