Quote Originally Posted by redgunamo View Post
You know, this sounds very much like it was birthed amidst the 80s London fashion, media and club scene. I don't know if you were there but the Face magazine and the New Musical Express, Ronnie Scott's, Heaven-under-the-Arches and the Wag club and illegal "warehouse" parties. WOMAD. Steve Strange and the Westwood siblings, Vivienne & Timothy. Soho and Camden. Richard Branson creating a budget airline to send London's surplus trendies to New York from where they could return even more insufferably trendy.

Basically the likes of Julie Burchill and Tony Parsons have finally taken over everything
I think you're possibly close there, but Julie Birchill has surely lapsed from that priesthood. Isn't she rather more Daily Mail these days?

I wasn't exactly 'there' as you put it, being more on the fringes of the fringes, but knew people who were closer to the height of the fashionable scene, or at least some more secretly fashionable subset of it, and part of the uniform was the politics. Even then I found it to be rigid and intolerant.