Reading Time: 2 minutes Actor Steven Coogan has had a six-month driving ban reduced to 2 months, after having successfully argued that it was inconceivable that his TV character Alan Partridge be seen on public transport. I have received several fines for driving above the speed limit, but never in built-up areas. There is no points system in the […]
Society
Five Minutes In The US And My English Is In Big Trouble
Reading Time: 3 minutes I didn’t spend long in the US, just past customs and a few hours between terminals, but I can tell you straight away that if I came to live there permanently, my English would quickly be in big trouble. For starters, my cute semblance of a cockneyish intonation due to my being born on the […]
Falling Out Of Love With Facebook
Reading Time: 3 minutes It has taken me just over two years to find out the limitations of Facebook for the sharing of personal viewpoints. The social media giant has become submerged with unsubtle memes, links to mainstream media news articles that have not been read before sharing, and certainly not read before being commenting on. Facebook has become […]
MONDE – Les États-fusils d’Amérique
Reading Time: 4 minutes L’Amérique est un pays violent et la disponibilité généralisée des armes à feu est juste un symptôme de cette violence inhérente. L’Amérique ne doit plus être un pays où tout est permis, où il n’y a pas de limites et où les valeurs morales se plient aux considérations financières et à l’influence politique. […]
American Gun Problem Is Cultural
Reading Time: 5 minutes American gun problem is about culture, not about guns. All the other stuff, the love, the democracy, the floundering into lust, is a sort of by-play. The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. – D.H. Lawrence (1923) High school student Haily Jordan wrote an […]
On The Edge Of A “Sexual Ravine” – One Giant Leap Forwards For Womanhood
Reading Time: 6 minutes Most women find themselves constantly on the edge of a dangerous and ubiquitous “sexual ravine.” Those who fall into the trap of the ravine no longer see themselves as unique and valuable individuals. They possess a physical body that constantly requires an appearance corresponding to sexual criteria imposed by men. The ravine extracts from its […]
Why Can’t I Be A Famous Moronic YouTuber?
Reading Time: 8 minutes I used not to mind YouTubers. Now I do. I suppose that I’m just jealous of a YouTuber who has 6 times more followers than inhabitants in the Netherlands. The bottom line is that I’m probably jealous of every single YouTuber. How I would love to have 98,457,085 subscribers to my blog. I’ve given up […]
So What, Ambassador – Isabel Had Sex And Then Took A Leak
Reading Time: 3 minutes No one was much bothered by what had been leaked. Kim Darroch, the UK ambassador to the US, had only reported back what had long been obvious to the entire world: that Donald Trump was vain and inept and ran a wholly dysfunctional administration. It was the sort of email that anyone might send after watching […]
FRANCE: François de Rugy – Big Mac À L’Élysée
Reading Time: 3 minutes C’est navrant lorsque des ministres à court d’idées sont persécutés pour autre chose par le pays qu’ils tentent de gouverner. C’est comme si nous avions tous subit une attaque de moralité divine concernant le fait qu’ils font autre chose que de gouverner. La dernière victime de cette moralité démocratique visant le mode de vie somptueux […]
A Big Mac, French Fries And A Coke. Anything Else, Minister?
Reading Time: 3 minutes It is sad really, when ministers who run out of ideas are being persecuted for something else by the country they are trying to govern. It is as if we all have suddenly had an attack of divine morality concerning the fact that they are otherwise engaged. The latest victim of the democratic inquisition into […]