Yeah I was told by Conservative Mary in Oxfam yesterday, when I was about to get some money from my wallet in the office to buy a book, 'Oh you're getting your ill-gotten gains are you?' I took it like water off a duck's back but there you go.

Freedom is under threat because, according to Arendt, there is no public sphere to talk of, everything has become 'social' and the distinction between private and public is blurred. Politics, according to her, should not be about managing the country and telling people what to do, but about exercising freedom through deliberation. Political action, for her, is an end in itself and not a means to an end.