Tag Archives: Great Britain
Grexit and Austerity: the slogans of antipathy.
Don’t you just hate the sensationalising of events with catchphrases? We accept that genuine disasters are usually given abbreviations as a convenience and then absorbed into the lexicon immediately, say ‘Piper Alpha’, ‘Dunblane’, ‘Lockerbie’ or ‘9/11’. Okay, so that last … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbreviations, Acronyms, Affluent aspiration would be a great name for a punk band, Alliteration is snazzy - innit?, Antipathy, Austerity, EU, EU Referendum, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Greens, Grexit, Iain Duncan Smith sniffs the seats on buses, Labour, Single Muslim lesbian mums with eight kids from Somalia, Slogans, SNP, The War on Drugs, Tory Bastardism in full effect, Westminster, Xenophobia
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The aftermath of the independence referendum.
I’m ready to embrace the challenges ahead that independence will bring. The only remaining question is do enough of us want to write our future? That would be No. Currently I’m reading Blood Meridian by Cormack McCarthy. Every engrossing page … Continue reading
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Tagged Aftermath, Alex Salmond, Better Together, Blood Meridian, Cormack McCarthy, David Cameron, Douglas Carswell, Ed Miliband, George Orwell, Glenda Jackson, Gordon Brown, Great Britain, Groupthink, Holyrood, Independence referendum, Jim Murphy, Johann Lamont, Labour, Mark Reckless, Nazi Salutes, NHS, No Thanks, Orange Order, Russell Brand, Scotland, Scottish Green Party, Scottish Indepedence, Scottish Nationalist Party, Scottish Socialist Party, Thatcherism, Tories, UKIP, Unionist scum, Westminster, Yes
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