Fly the Saatchi Standard

Hi all,
Reading an online interview with Charles Saatchi (above right, Art Patron & former Spin King) I was stuck by the admiration he still obviously holds for former Prime Minister (and his former boss) Margaret Thatcher (above left)

“She created an environment in Britain where people felt they could escape the role they had been pushed into. They no longer had to be dropouts and failures. Students like Damien Hirst felt they could do absolutely anything."

Well, obviously in Damian Hirst’s case, this is an illusion under which he still blissfully labors….or is that New Labours?

Still, it’s a little curious, when you consider how much Damian and his chums despise the whole Thatcher legacy, how involved these ‘edgy artists’ always have been with the very man (take a bow Charles Saatchi) who helped the Iron Lady stay in power for so long!

"Three Cheers for Britart and raise the double standard"

Catch you later
Shirley

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So Who is Worth £30 Million?

Hi all,

Why on earth has the news that popular Double act Ant and Dec (above) who have secured a two-and-a-half year golden handshake deal (worth around £30 million) raised such a chorus of hissy fit’s and righteous disapproval from certain areas of our (oh so impartial and highly paid) media…?

I know it’s a massive sum.

Yes and I know Surgeons and Firefighters and Nurses get sweet sod all in comparison. (Blame our Government folks!)

However when you consider that Damian Hurst was listed in last years Times rich list as being worth £100 Million or that the utterly useless duo Gilbert & George are raking in a fortune (for manufacturing profane images of excrement) then comparison would suggest our Geordie lads are an absolute bargain!

I’ll take a good laugh from them as opposed to all the poisoned hypocrisy of the farty Britart crowd any day.

I’m an artist…get me out of here!

Catch you later
Shirley

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