How Margaret Thatcher's Brahms phone was invented
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Re: How Margaret Thatcher's Brahms phone was invented
#2Story has not so much as a single word about how it was invented.
Re: How Margaret Thatcher's Brahms phone was invented
#3Story has not so much as a single word about how it was invented.
By stuffing not one, but two briefcases with the latest technology, but of course!
The article is super shallow.
Re: How Margaret Thatcher's Brahms phone was invented
#4A bit better is the BBC interview with the inventor upon which the article is based. There isn’t much more detail but at least it is slightly more engaging.
You can hear it at this location, from 2:41:00-2:45:00, though being the BBC it’s hidden behind maddening levels of access.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0018177
If you’d like details on something more modern, you can read about the Brent
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/people/aldrich/vigilant/l...
Re: How Margaret Thatcher's Brahms phone was invented
#5Story has not so much as a single word about how it was invented.
That's because it is (subtle) propaganda, designed to elicit feelings rather than deliver facts. Self-actualization, it suggests, requires external endorsement.
"We knew that every piece of information we were sending out to our chaps was significant," she says, recalling watching the importance of their work reflected back on the TV news.
Re: How Margaret Thatcher's Brahms phone was invented
#6Story has not so much as a single word about how it was invented.
That's because it is (subtle) propaganda, designed to elicit feelings rather than deliver facts. Self-actualization, it suggests, requires external endorsement. "We knew that every piece of information we were sending out to our chaps was significant," she says, recalling watching the importance of their work reflected back on the TV news.
I was a kid at primary school when the Falklands war was underway, I remember how the teachers were telling us Argentina was bad for invading and we should support the armed forces. We had to draw pictures of the Falklands conflict from images we might see in the papers, because I was made to draw silhouettes of the Navy boats!
Even at Primary School here in the UK, kids were being propagandised and I bet it still goes on today, most recently with the Jubilee!
The Royal Family have the nickname "The Firm" here in the UK, but it also extends out the wider military forces and members of the armed forces both active and retired, as a term of endearment for themselves when they are intimidating and harassing members of the public in an organised crime syndicate manner.
Re: How Margaret Thatcher's Brahms phone was invented
#7Story has not so much as a single word about how it was invented.
By stuffing not one, but two briefcases with the latest technology, but of course! The article is super shallow.
Such terrible writing.
It mentions how the machine didn't work very well with high frequency (female) voices, it sets up a tense moment where there were only women working in the office and an agent called them, it builds the tension with > "We knew that every piece of information we were sending out to our chaps was significant," she says, recalling watching the importance of their work reflected back on the TV news.
And then.. what happened next? The author deviates and doesn't conclude the story! Is he a 7th grade high schooler, this is their level of writing...
Re: How Margaret Thatcher's Brahms phone was invented
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's because it is (subtle) propaganda, designed to elicit feelings rather than deliver facts. Self-actualization, it suggests, requires external endorsement. "We knew that every piece of information we were sending out to our chaps was significant," she says, recalling watching the importance of their work reflected back on the TV news.
I was a kid at primary school when the Falklands war was underway, I remember how the teachers were telling us Argentina was bad for invading and we should support the armed forces. We had to draw pictures of the Falklands conflict from images we might see in the papers, because I was made to draw silhouettes of the Navy boats! Even at Primary School here in the UK, kids were being propagandised and I bet it still go…
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Re: How Margaret Thatcher's Brahms phone was invented
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's because it is (subtle) propaganda, designed to elicit feelings rather than deliver facts. Self-actualization, it suggests, requires external endorsement. "We knew that every piece of information we were sending out to our chaps was significant," she says, recalling watching the importance of their work reflected back on the TV news.
I was a kid at primary school when the Falklands war was underway, I remember how the teachers were telling us Argentina was bad for invading and we should support the armed forces. We had to draw pictures of the Falklands conflict from images we might see in the papers, because I was made to draw silhouettes of the Navy boats! Even at Primary School here in the UK, kids were being propagandised and I bet it still go…
Argentina was bad though? If ever there was a just war, it was this.
Re: How Margaret Thatcher's Brahms phone was invented
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was a kid at primary school when the Falklands war was underway, I remember how the teachers were telling us Argentina was bad for invading and we should support the armed forces. We had to draw pictures of the Falklands conflict from images we might see in the papers, because I was made to draw silhouettes of the Navy boats! Even at Primary School here in the UK, kids were being propagandised and I bet it still go…
Argentina was bad though? If ever there was a just war, it was this.
The Generals lost their war and got booted so there is that.