David Baddiel
The Catalyst
Ideas with a spark, energy, range and the ability to start things.
David Baddiel is a comedian and author who engages deeply with themes of identity, culture, and social justice. This interview reveals his leadership style as one that challenges the status quo and encourages open dialogue about difficult subjects, demonstrating his role as a catalyst for change.
“My big idea was about that I believe that the way that women were represented by a lot of the big male writers in the 19th century shows an inability to imagine women as actually kind of like sort of sexual being.”
“Really wealthy, as far as I can make out. I mean, I think they had servants and stuff, and they had a big society wedding, my grandparents, but then from 1933 onwards, that obviously all went. And by 1939, they had nothing. And my grandfather had been in a concentration camp.”
“Good. Good. I mean, I think one of the things that's good is that you come from a football fandom that isn't just about winning everything. And most people, that's most people's experience, right? But it's sort of... England's experience. I mean, England's experience is maybe more about really thinking we're going to do well.”
“I don't really know why we went to that school. Well, my younger brother didn't go to that school. My younger brother went to a school called Aylstone, and he once said to me to try and describe how hard Aylstone was, that another kid had burnt down the assembly hall and got suspended, which I think is kind of brilliant.”
The Rest Is Politics: Leading — 12: David Baddiel: God, Anti-Semitism and the Y-Word
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