The week began with grim projections about petrol prices, and has been coloured
by the twin topics of tax and inflation since. So, a decent opportunity to look back on the fuel
protests of 2000, in the latest shot from the Spectator archives. Here’s a piece from the time, by Coffee House regular, and Spectator theatre critic, Lloyd Evans:
Do you want a smack in the mouth?, Lloyd Evans, The Spectator, 16 September 2000
As I write this, the gravest crisis in our island story is unfolding before my eyes. The great four-star emergency of September 2000. Where it will lead, no one can tell. Frequent bulletins from
BBC News 24 keep me constantly up to date, but I fear that at any moment the service will be closed down and replaced, in true totalitarian style, by round-the-clock repeats of The Onedin Line,
Dad’s Army and string quartets by Vaughan Williams.
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