Let’s Tramp the Tory Party into the Dirt

Will Black
3 min read5 days ago
AI generated image of a woman dancing on the grave of the Tory Party

There’s a great, vitriolic Elvis Costello song about former Tory leader Margaret Thatcher, called Tramp the Dirt Down. It’s very relevant to our era.

The song was released in 1989, a decade into the reign of sadistic Thatcher, who imposed a cruel, experimental neoliberalism on Britain, which tore communities apart and left many people destitute. Elvis had started performing the song a couple…

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Will Black

Will is an anthropologist, journalist and former clinician. He is the author or Veneer of Civilisation, Psychopathic Cultures and Beyond the End of the World