TOM EATON: The pinstriped parasites at Bell Pottinger
'In South Africa, the foxes have always guarded the henhouse, but under the Zuptas they've taken over the farmhouse and local abattoir, too'
Steve Hofmeyr once called me a dom drol. I was delighted and not just because it was a glowing character reference. No, what really tickled me was Hofmeyr's revelation that turds have an intellectual tradition. After all, the existence of a dom drol implies the existence of a slim drol; a brilliant, original drol; a drol that can expand your mind and not just your colon. To this day I picture Steve, crouched over his loo, arguing race and history with a floater, accusing it of being a dom drol until it unleashes some glittering sophistry, stalking back and forth across the bowl like Aristotle pacing an amphitheatre, until Steve is forced to concede that it is, in fact, a slim drol.I mention this only to make two points, namely, that I get called names quite often and that slim drolle are real. Recently, people have taken to calling me "cynical", as if they're using an exaggerated and slightly cruel slur that will get an emotional response. I don't react because they're right. About ...
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