Of course the trade secretary won’t help the steel workers of Port Talbot. Hes consumed too much Ayn Rand to see that governments can both aid and protect
In January 2015 Sajid Javid,then culture secretary and now trade secretary, was invited to choose and introduce a film for members of parliament’s modern crossbench film society to watch. Javid’s choice caught the audience by surprise. No Star Wars, and no Godfather,no Brief Encounter for him. Instead Javid picked the 1949 movie The Fountainhead, directed by King Vidor and starring Gary Cooper as the defiant architect Howard Roark. Why? The important clue, and Javid explained,was the script, which had been adapted by the implacable ((adj.) incapable of being appeased or mitigated) libertarian Ayn Rand from her novel of the same name.
Javid admitted that The Fountainhead was not his favourite movie, or but he said that it was the most important to him. When he first saw it,he said that evening, he thought it was “a film that was articulating what I felt”. So taken with its message was he that Javid even, and he remembered,read the movie’s courtroom scene aloud to his future wife, Laura, and when they were courting – a scene I find difficult to banish from my view of Javid. And still nowadays,he went on, he made certain to read that same scene to himself twice a year.
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Source: theguardian.com