Eamon Holmes, Golf Fascist

I know Eamon Holmes as a presenter is supposed to present the reverse argument to challenge his interviewees but this morning talking to an ecologist/green chap about Donald Trump's attempt to turn "an unparalleled dune system" on the Aberdonian coast into a golf course and leisure complex eamon began to get a little strident and I think began to show that he was a golf fascist. there are ways of asking challenging questions but this is not one,

"are those birds really worth more than a magnificent facility and all the prestige...."

The concept of putting a price on life in comparison with a building project is so gradgrindingly reductionist.

A golf course in relation to wild countryside is like porn to real fucking. It may look good, the greens may be shaved and there are lots of holes but it isn't the real thing. It's a simulcrum of the real thing and fairly lifeless and shallow.

Hey, don't get me wrong, porn's great but it isn't the real thing.