TOM EATON: Thoughts from a rudderless march
'If, like me, you think that democracy is worth maintaining, then showing up is literally the least you can do'
A few people look slightly embarrassed. Embarrassment has been a big topic ahead of this march. Some have been embarrassed by the lack of embarrassment of their friends. Others have been embarrassed by the idea of making this all about them and their middle-class discomfort, preferring instead to make it all about them and their middle-class mortification. Their Victorian ancestors beam down on them proudly. One group, though, isn’t embarrassed. They’re the ones about to get richer than God by pushing through the nuclear deal. A few modern Victorians still ask: “Have they no shame?”, using the language of a 19th-century dressing room to try to make sense of a 21st-century looter setting his eyes on the biggest prize in South Africa’s history.
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