Category Archives: United Kingdom

The Margaret Thatcher I Remember

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Matt Osborne

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Thatcher, who famously said “there is no society, only families,” was mainly successful at atomizing and attacking the society she denied existed while pretending to fly a flag of freedom over it. Continue reading →

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Morning Awful: Blacklist

Posted on August 9, 2012 by Matt Osborne

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Share the post “Morning Awful: Blacklist”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailForty-four UK construction firms paid a “consultant” named Ian Kerr to keep thousands of names on a worker blacklist. While the Information Commissioner broke up the concern in 2009, little has happened since then and … Continue reading →

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Some Gentle Home Truths for Our British Friends

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Emilia1956

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Share the post “Some Gentle Home Truths for Our British Friends”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThe British hate to be called on their faults. After all, they were our colonial masters who treated us like second-class citizens whilst taxing us like first class fools. They … Continue reading →

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Cheating Isn’t Cheating When the British Do It

Posted on August 6, 2012 by Emilia1956

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Share the post “Cheating Isn’t Cheating When the British Do It”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail The British love to paint the Americans as sore losers and whingers, but BBC’s coverage of the 2012 London Olympics proves that their sports coverage is just as puerile, … Continue reading →

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The BBC Is Not Necessarily the Best Because It’s Live

Posted on July 31, 2012 by Emilia1956

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Share the post “The BBC Is Not Necessarily the Best Because It’s Live”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail The Olympics have started. That’s something that is never forgotten in England (as opposed to Great Britain) because England doesn’t have a national holiday where Englishness can … Continue reading →

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Mitt Masters Coded Language: A Euphemism for “White”

Posted on July 26, 2012 by Emilia1956

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Share the post “Mitt Masters Coded Language: A Euphemism for “White””FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail It’s Olympic Week in the UK. That’s the time to show stuff of Empire and how the Brits taught the world how to organise properly … well, that last bit’s … Continue reading →

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An Olympic Uniform for Republicans

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Emilia1956

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Share the post “An Olympic Uniform for Republicans”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailSo, Ralph Lauren has designed the US Olympic Team’s Opening Ceremony uniforms. See below:- As the Olympics is being held in two weeks’ time here in the land of the perenniel losers, dingy … Continue reading →

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Happy Fourth from an ExPat Living in the Land of the Losers

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Emilia1956

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Share the post “Happy Fourth from an ExPat Living in the Land of the Losers”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail For my sins, I married a Brit. For my most grievous sins, I was condemned to spend the better (or really, the worst) part of … Continue reading →

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If You Want to Know How Paul Ryan’s Budget Will Work, Look at the UK

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Emilia1956

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Share the post “If You Want to Know How Paul Ryan’s Budget Will Work, Look at the UK”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailMartin Bashir shows us all exactly what would happen if Paul Ryan’s budget becomes the law of the land. Because it’s the law … Continue reading →

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Britain’s False Moral High Ground

Posted on April 15, 2012 by Emilia1956

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Share the post “Britain’s False Moral High Ground”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailIn all the years I’ve lived in the UK, the intellectual talking heads who populate the media’s talking points programs have revelled in the fact that, according to them, Britain was a far … Continue reading →

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Another Brits’-Eye View of Racism

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Emilia1956

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Share the post “Another Brits’-Eye View of Racism”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailWhen my Facebook friend Imani Gandy, who blogs as Angry Black Lady, announced on her timeline yesterday that she was being interviewed for BBC World Service’s Newshour, I made a point to listen. … Continue reading →

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