in that inch

[fflo]

This discussion over in pijeanf's blog is reminding me of an old idea from British Labour politics, told to me by homovegetarian and apparently attributable to a Richard Neville: there's only an inch between the Tories/Conservatives and the Labor Party, but it's in that inch we live. It's referred to, among other places, in this interview with John Lennon from 1971.

There's a little on Richard Neville at this amazon listing for his book Hippie Hippie Shake.

Comments

[groovesinorbit]

The interesting thing to me about their discussion on that inch is how JL and the interviewer challenge it and think it puts us in a corner, which I think it does, too. I wish they'd gone into more detail on that.