Wednesday, 31 October 2012

Disney & the Future of Star Wars; or, how about a Sci-Fi Mash-Up with Star Trek, Dr. Who, & The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy?

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Update: 4 May 2020. None of the stories below was commissioned by Disney and will not be appearing at a cinema near you any time soon. Nev...
Wednesday, 10 October 2012

The Rhetoric of David Cameron’s Speech to the Conservative Party today at the Birmingham Party Conference; or, the Conservative PC Lies in Scameron’s Ansprache to the Lizard People today at the Nuremberg Rally.

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The Tories, with their US Republican ideological soulmates, long-ago came up with the term “Political Correctness” to describe liberal-left...
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Wednesday, 19 September 2012

A Glossary of Terms for a Tory History Textbook; or, how to teach freshers historiographical semiology

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With the new term starting soon, my university campus is undergoing its annual replenishment with fresh-faced first-years (albeit fewer of t...
Wednesday, 12 September 2012

Defining Nick Clegg (or at least a kind of Cleggous phenomenology)

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So Nick “Your Vote” Clegg has been at it again.  You know, lying, backsliding, you know the drill.  Longish ago, in the general election, hi...
Tuesday, 11 September 2012

A long tweet to Nick Robinson

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Dear @bbcnickrobinson, I see you’ve taken to using the word “efficiencies” for government cuts, 1/10 @bbcnickrobinson so I would like t...
Sunday, 29 July 2012

The Olympic Opening Ceremony as Popular History and Public Enterprise; or, in your face, David Cameron

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18 July 2020. Apparently, last night there was a repeat of the London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony, so I thought I'd revive this. It...
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Friday, 27 July 2012

“Foul Play” by “Cowboy” Journalists; or, how to be an internet troll.

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Regular readers of my rants will know that from time to time (regularly and often) I criticise what I see as dangerous and destructive eth...