AUDIO: Eric Idle's Legs
In which I explore how slapstick Monty Pythonesque nineties comedies (and Mr. Idle’s legs) help us to identify contemporary controlled opposition (no, really…!).
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Excellent piece with the kind of lucid insights that seem blindingly obvious after they have been expressed. Richard D Hall’s calm analytical approach though, has never incited lawbreaking as far as I know. Perhaps they have allowed him to continue, thinking him useful in fomenting discontent but then decided his influence was too strong and he needed to be destroyed and made an example of to discourage others? That he might knowingly be CO I find difficult to believe