Tag Archives: The War on Drugs

Narcos – a lesson in the necessity of myopia and hypocrisy

Posted on 24/02/2016 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

If, like me, you’re over the age of thirty, you may remember seeing the news of Pablo Escobar’s death on the telly. Perhaps, if like me, you were young at the time, it and his significance may not have had … Continue reading →

Posted in TV | Tagged Basil Exposition, Boyd Holbrook, Cocaine, Colombia, Hypocrisy, Javier Pena, Medellin cartel, Myopia, Narcos, Pablo Escobar, Pedro Pascal, Reaganism, Steve Murphy, The War on Drugs, TV, Wagner Moura | Leave a comment

Grexit and Austerity: the slogans of antipathy.

Posted on 16/07/2015 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

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 →

Posted in Politics | 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 | Leave a comment