12 Articles On The Boat Race Interruption To Be Published Next Week

  1. Article by Trenton Oldfield on Comment Is Free entitled “Why I Interrupted The Boat Race”, sub-title “The elite have brought the country to its knees, now is the time to take action”.
  2. Article by Dan Hodges saying this is precisely why Labour must embrace austerity, lest they be seen as lone swimmers against the boat race of progress.
  3. Article by A.N. Other Old Leftist Guardian commentator calling Trenton Oldfield for the fact that he represents precisely the kind of contararian middle-class activist elite that shows the problem with the contemporary left. Maybe from the “decent left”
  4. Article by Ian Bone validating Trenton Oldfield for “bashing the rich” and spoiling their day, but point out he is a trustafarian a la his commentary on Owen Jones.
  5. Article that wrongly understands several elements of the radical left: commodity fetishism, the black bloc tactic, situationism, the Yes Men and so on.
  6. Article drawing links to the occupation of space and connecting it the Arab Spring.
  7. Article from an Oxbridge graduate in the Evening Standard saying that he is wrong and elitism is a great thing.
  8. Round table discussion on “Elites” in the Guardian featuring Polly Toynbee, and potentially on Newsnight.
  9. Reference to the story tangentially in a “smarter than thou” pro-systematic article in the Financial Times showing the pointlessness of protest.
  10. Article showing this is precisely what must be prevented during the Olympics in The Telegraph accompanied by a call for vastly authoritarian policies.
  11. Article from the Sp!ked crew either defending Trenton Oldfield on the grounds it shows how much the “liberal elite” cannot understand his protest, or attacking him personally. Or being pro-“reasonable elites”.
  12. Hit article on Trenton Oldfield in the Mail.

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