English in politics
When someone uses a certain style of English it can reveal their attitude to politics - to the political system, and it might also reveal the attitude of the political system.
This seems to be the case when a poster on the `British …
August 15, 2008
Disappointing Jim Morrison grave
I’m pretty disappointed with Jim Morrison’s grave.
The train ride to the cemetery, on the Paris `Metro’ transit system, is pretty disappointing, the entrance to the cemetery is pretty disappointing, the route to the grave is pretty disappointing and the grave …
August 3, 2008
Messing around with cooking
Ex-army backpacking equipment has an air of reliability about it – if an army depended on it it must be reliable.
This attitude conveniently ignores the fact that armies are sometimes defeated, whether they have reliable equipment or not.
I mean, who …