Brand – who has attempted to position himself as an anti-corporate, anti-politics agitator – also laments the power of the "establishment" and "old media".
It will do almost everything in its power, because in one regard the wishful Tories are right: most German officials are extremely anxious that Britain should not leave the European Union.They see it as a like-minded agitator for competitiveness and against the bureaucrats who presume to tell Europeans what receptacles olive oil should be kept in.
The oil boss still bears a vestige of the agitator of 15 years ago.
An American communist agitator once began a speech with the immortal lines: "Workers and peasants of Brooklyn".
He was an agitator throughout his life for the causes in which he believed, political, social and poetical.
It made her a celebrity in the salons of Paris, a status she traded for that of Madame-la-Colère, an agitator who flogged her failing body round France, denouncing the oppression of women and appalling social conditions, and seeking recruits for her Workers' Union.Gauguin's idealism was of a different kind.
The word "terrorist", meanwhile, is often used the way "outside agitator" was used in the Jim Crow South, to deny legitimacy to acts of protest or political violence.
This was the argument made at the conference by Robert Monks, a veteran agitator for better corporate governance.
During nine months in office, however, Mr Kan, a former civil-rights activist, has come across as an agitator rather than a builder of bridges.
The minor humans, a fairground of oddities, are named with Dickensian ear: Elvet Gander, a creepy psychoanalyst, Avram Snitkin, an itinerant ethnomethodologist, Mickey Impey, a pretty pop poet, Jonty Surtees, an agitator, Eva Wijnnobel, a terrible astrologer.A knowledge of the earlier books does, however, help.
Whereas he is an orator and agitator of the streets (his protest occupied the Zócalo for months), his successor operates behind the scenes.
