you compared the royal family to pandas. Some in Britain have accused you of being ungrateful

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This is from an interview with Hilary Mantel last November in Der Spiegel. She's obviously a dangerous woman

Mantel: But why? Everyone likes pandas! And people go to considerable expense to keep pandas in comfort so that they breed. It's not like I suggested the abolition of the royal family or the execution of the pandas.

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SPIEGEL: Have public debates in Britain become more trivial in recent decades?

Mantel: The quality of public discourse is low. There is a disposition in this country at the moment to take offense. It seems as if it's become a hobby for people to wait around for someone to express an opinion they don't like and then to react violently. There's a bullying mood. I think that the Internet has something to with this. I've written on current affairs as a journalist and I know that abusive letters to the editors have always existed, even obscene letters. It's just that the Internet makes it so much easier. It is rather frightening when you think about the depth of pathology out there.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/hilary-mantel-in-an-interview-with-spiegel-on-the-britain-of-today-a-1002263.html

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1. She has a very valid point

about those who lie in wait for something to be offended by. I see it every day where I am, makes it a drag just to be around people.

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2. It's a fascinating interview

She's a woman who speaks her mind.