Irons in the fire

Self-awareness corner this is. Jeremy Irons is talking a good game about becoming a green campaigner. He ‘plans to make a documentary about sustainability and waste disposal’. One problem is ‘westerners living a bountiful “pie-in-the-sky” existence’; another problem is clothes. Yes, clothes:

You walk down the high street and it’s just clothes, clothes, clothes. How many clothes do people need? We’re on a hiding to nothing with that.

Irons, so we are also told, ‘owns seven houses, including a pink castle in Co Cork’. He describes himself as apolitical. (Via.)

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