Comments on: What’s Left on the Left? http://blogs.whatsonstage.com/2007/11/12/whats-left-on-the-left/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:36:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Jay Rayner http://blogs.whatsonstage.com/2007/11/12/whats-left-on-the-left/#comment-901 Jay Rayner Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:31:41 +0000 http://blogs.whatsonstage.com/2007/11/12/whats-left-on-the-left/#comment-901 For what it's worth I did approach David Edgar. He never responded to me. As to terminology I do understand that, and didn't ignore it in the piece. Twice there are references to how fluid and uncertain the terms left and right have become. One thing is gatifying. Whatever people say about the piece the blogs are talking about it and, much more importantly, the issues raised. To my mind that means it did its job. For what it’s worth I did approach David Edgar. He never responded to me.

As to terminology I do understand that, and didn’t ignore it in the piece. Twice there are references to how fluid and uncertain the terms left and right have become.

One thing is gatifying. Whatever people say about the piece the blogs are talking about it and, much more importantly, the issues raised. To my mind that means it did its job.

]]> By: Michael Coveney http://blogs.whatsonstage.com/2007/11/12/whats-left-on-the-left/#comment-888 Michael Coveney Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:27:03 +0000 http://blogs.whatsonstage.com/2007/11/12/whats-left-on-the-left/#comment-888 Interesting, Jay. Well, no, it wasn't a revelation to me but it was presumably to your readers. Sorry you missed the Tristram Shandy point of saying the question wasn't worth asking then answering it in part and at length and indeed not at all. I wonder how all this ties in with the current question about right wing art? I just sense the wrong terms are being deployed. I bumped into David Edgar and asked him had he seen your piece. He said he hadn't but that he'd pay more attention when there were some left wing newspapers! Surely the dear old Obs isn't lost to the left merely because it supports the war in Iraq and takes a pretty hard line these days on Muslims and multiculturalism? Don't forget to eat. Interesting, Jay. Well, no, it wasn’t a revelation to me but it was presumably to your readers. Sorry you missed the Tristram Shandy point of saying the question wasn’t worth asking then answering it in part and at length and indeed not at all. I wonder how all this ties in with the current question about right wing art? I just sense the wrong terms are being deployed. I bumped into David Edgar and asked him had he seen your piece. He said he hadn’t but that he’d pay more attention when there were some left wing newspapers! Surely the dear old Obs isn’t lost to the left merely because it supports the war in Iraq and takes a pretty hard line these days on Muslims and multiculturalism? Don’t forget to eat.

]]> By: Jay Rayner http://blogs.whatsonstage.com/2007/11/12/whats-left-on-the-left/#comment-885 Jay Rayner Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:46:51 +0000 http://blogs.whatsonstage.com/2007/11/12/whats-left-on-the-left/#comment-885 Interesting Michael. You say the question is barely worth asking, and then seem enough to find enough to say in answer to it to fill eleven paragraphs. You also say I 'reveal' that I was the theatre critic on the Ham & High. It wasn't much of a revelation to you was it. That's when we first met. You also know full well that unlike other restaurant critics I have written on numerous subjects over the years including, regularly, theatre. Check with that nice Mr Google if you need to. Take issue with my piece by all means, but please don't anchor your argument in spurious claims. Interesting Michael. You say the question is barely worth asking, and then seem enough to find enough to say in answer to it to fill eleven paragraphs. You also say I ‘reveal’ that I was the theatre critic on the Ham & High. It wasn’t much of a revelation to you was it. That’s when we first met. You also know full well that unlike other restaurant critics I have written on numerous subjects over the years including, regularly, theatre. Check with that nice Mr Google if you need to.

Take issue with my piece by all means, but please don’t anchor your argument in spurious claims.

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