A challenge to all our readers, posters, and commenters! Some people, Americans and Europeans, still believe they live in democracies, despite growing evidence to the contrary.All will come out well in the end, they feel. So be it. Others think the democracy has moved on to something else, and shudder at the prospect. What would …
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He could be any American Conservative Southern God-fearing Christian…….Philip Larkin, inveighing against the “Europeanized” cultural elites of the 30s and 40s. I quote: “I HATE anyone who does anything unusual at all, whether it is make a lot of MONEY or dress in silly CLOTHES or read books of foreign WORDS or know a lot …
According to the medical journal The Lancet 650,000 people have been killed in Iraq since the war began. When this figure was queried, attacked, disbelieved, particularly by the Bush Administration and fellow-travelers, The Lancet apparently went back to the drawing board, did its sums again, and concluded that they were wrong: the original figure was …
The Turner Prize In 2006 a 29 year-old Scottish painter named Lucy McKenzie turned down the Turner prize nomination. McKenzie had worked as a porn model, and her oeuvre is sometimes sexually explicit (one painting shows her eating a bowl of soup below a framed image of a woman masturbating). The tabloids would certainly have …
Talk show hosts stand accused of being politically biased, but are they? It is more than possible that they are simply uninformed, ignorant and lazy. If you don’t do your homework you don’t know the hard questions to ask politicians and pundits. On of the good things about the BBC is they way that British …
