one notable aspect from fierro s historic story is that the evening that they had together is a stark rebuttal of the slander and bigotry being aimed at queer people, queer spaces, particularly by the political right, which has been carrying out a monthlong campaign of m-nis and intimidation directly specifically at dragged events and venues, jack shows, which they were taking in. richard fierro story is an example of solidarity and courage under the worst conditions, he took his family to eject show. tim miller is a colorado native, former spokesperson for the rnc, now a writer at large at bullwork?, he joins me now. i think everyone feels incredibly in awe of what fierro did and what the others in that room, it was not limited to him, there were a bunch of people who helped, we don t know all the names yet, but it also does serve as a kind of rebuttal of how this sort of disgusting story that has been told about the kinds of people that would go to a drag show, which has become a ki
economist. he s an author, a. caller: um nis for the ft, and his new podcast is called simply enough, cautionary tales. welcome. thank you. i m fascinated by the oil tanker one. what you describe is why don t you describe what happens? it was 1967. the oil tanker was one of the largest ships in the world. a great ship. and its captain took her between the silly aisles and the coast of corn wall off the south tip of great britain. it s narrow for an oil tanker and as the captain took the ship along the course, little by little small pieces of information came to light that should have made him think hang on, we need to go a safer route. there was a navigation error. they realized the tanker wasn t quite where they thought, but rather than stop and go around, he kept thinking i can make it.
chance. we ll show you. you know, you are in some ways the bellwether for the western world. you re the first western country that is going to try in a comprehensive way to pare back some of the excessive guaranties, exitments and commitments and expenditures of the welfare state. do you think you can do this and survive politically. i know you made reference to taking a voyage and a greek calm um nis said yeah, but it took him ten years, all his comrades died and he ended up naked and washed ashore in ithaca. do you think you ll have a few more people than he had when this journey is over? we know these journeys are not easy and there are casualties but we also know we can reach this goal. what we lived through in the last few months was also somewhat of a paradox because you and again, i m not trying