The Anxious Affluent
Haven’t been on here for a while, but articles between Nov and Jan will be posted soon. In the meantime, here’s a link to a piece from Monday’s Guardian about the mendacious aspects of that big political buzzword ‘aspiration’ – and, for the estimable Comment Is Free poster princesschipchops, a piece I did for Renewal in a similar(ish) area titled The Anxious Affluent. You can download it here.
Kirstie Allsopp and all that
This one created a slight stink: a piece in The Guardian about the social tribe surrounding David Cameron, and how they just might rub a lot of people up the wrong way…
Nursery rhymes: RIP?
Could be, and it’s all the fault of us rock-fixated thirtysomething groovers. As this piece from The Guardian suggests, there’s “a whole cast of characters, herded towards the cultural knacker’s yard like the cast of a geriatric Toy Story: Humpty Dumpty, Goosey Goosey Gander, the Grand Old Duke of York, Jack and Jill, a handful of mangy-looking black sheep and poor old Little Miss Muffet, clinging fretfully to her ‘tuffet’.”
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Westminster’s drugs paranoia
November 2nd, 2009
Tags: cannabis, drugs, drugs policy, ecstasy
Posted in Politics, comment
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From Comment Is Free: The drug-taking habits of this country have changed in the past two decades – but the government is scared to adjust its policy. It’s all here