Reading Time: 3 minutes This post is going to be sexist and…short. Having seen a picture of The Queen in an upmarket newspaper, I ask myself the following existential question – what the hell does she carry in her handbag? I admit that I used to walk around the street with my own personal handbag – a doggy bag […]
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Archimedes’ Principle, The Floating Border And Brexit
Reading Time: 3 minutes It is said that Greek legend Archimedes of Syracuse stepped into a bath and discovered a principle – the buoyant force on an object submerged in a fluid is equal to the weight of the fluid that is displaced by that object. More than 2000 years later, the DUP leader Arlene Foster has just discovered […]
Is It Alt-Right To Be A Leftie? – Polarisation In Politics
Reading Time: 5 minutes I don’t know whether it was a compliment or an insult but someone in the blue wastelands of Facebook called one of my posts, “a leftist rant.” Now then, I’ve been labelled for life and I must find out why and what it means. A “leftie,” moi? I admit that when I was at the tender […]
Greta Thunberg And The Climate Change Debate
Reading Time: 4 minutes On October 10 an interesting podcast was published on UncommonGroundMedia, analysing, “the validity of the criticisms by people who acknowledge climate change as a problem, and environmental activism as desirable, but are nevertheless vehemently critical of Greta on various grounds, including her youth, her white identity, and the perception of her as a puppet.” On […]
O What A Lovely World – Greta Bashing And Greenwashing
Reading Time: 4 minutes Maybe it’s the way she said it, the fact that she is a young girl on the verge of becoming a young woman, but climate change activist Greta Thunberg said a few things that we, as adults, found distressing. Watching her speech in front of the United Nations filled me with a sense of uneasiness. […]
Le Guide #MeToo Du Quartier Rouge d’Amsterdam
Reading Time: 7 minutes Dans le port d’Amsterdam Y a des marins qui boivent Et qui boivent et re-boivent Et qui re-boivent encore Ils boivent à la santé Des putains d’Amsterdam D’Hambourg ou d’ailleurs Enfin ils boivent aux dames Qui leur donnent leurs jolis corps Qui leur donnent leurs vertus Pour une pièce en or Et quand ils ont […]
SOCIÉTÉ – Les Mauvais Mots De Twitter
Reading Time: 3 minutes Le tweet d’Arron Banks, instigateur du Brexit, dans lequel il écrit en plaisantant que la militante qui lutte contre le changement climatique, Greta Thunberg, n’est pas à l’abri d’un accident de voile lors de sa traversée de l’Atlantique sur un yacht “émission zéro,” est un autre exemple de la façon dont des personnalités utilisent Twitter […]
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Twitter And Fowl Language
Reading Time: 3 minutes Brexit instigator Arron Banks’ tweet where he jokingly writes that climate change activist, Greta Thunberg, is not exempt from a sailing accident whilst crossing the Atlantic on a “zero-emission” yacht, is yet another example of how public figures use Twitter to send the world messages that are both obnoxious and irrelevant. Banks insists that he […]
PÉROU – Les Vacances De Monsieur Nulot
Reading Time: 4 minutes Alors que j’étais assis «confortablement» dans la construction en briques d’adobe que mes beaux-parents péruviens appellent «chez moi», j’éprouvais probablement davantage ce que l’on ressent au Pérou que n’importe quel touriste ayant visité le Machu Picchu. Je ne suis jamais allé à Machu Picchu et je n’ai pas l’intention de le faire. Une des raisons […]
Mister Nobody’s Holiday
Reading Time: 4 minutes As I sat “comfortably” in the adobe construction that my Peruvian parents in-law call “home,” I was probably tasting more of what it feels like to be in Peru than any tourist who has visited Machu Picchu can. I have never been to Machu Picchu and do not intend to do so. Part of the […]