Audience

Robin Cook’s Chicken Tikka Masala speech was delivered in 2001 at the Social Market Foundation in London in front of the press, members of the Social Market Foundation think tank, and probably other political figures. The speech was also covered in the British press.

The Social Market Foundation is a British think tank which researches and promotes ways of reconciling market capitalism with social policy. This means that the live audience was probably comprised of researchers and activists.

The audience includes all those physically present at the speech but also the general British public. In fact, the speaker targets the British people, particularly those who consider themselves pure-race Britons: “Sadly, it has become fashionable for some to ...