Tag: UK
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Junior Samples would’ve been 85 this year
The 20th Century’s most overrated figure (she actually touched poor people and once hugged someone with AIDS!) gets the 50th birthday treatment from Newsweek. It’s the UK’s most embarrassing fetish, as illustrated by Newsweek editor Tina Brown’s vacuous profile of the late princess: “Diana would have been 50 this month,” she writes. “What would she […]
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God save us from the queen
Was feeling a bit masochistic last night (perhaps I’ve been watching too many Braves games) so I checked in on our old pal Piers. He claims Americans are going crazy with excitement over the upcoming royal nuptials, though I’ve yet to meet anyone who gives a shit. Either Piers in denial or his social circle […]
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Respecting modernity shouldn’t be controversial
Perhaps most controversially, [British Prime Minister David Cameron] called for an end to a double standard that he said had tolerated the propagation of radical views among nonwhite groups that would be suppressed if they involved radical groups among whites. Muslim groups in Britain were quick to condemn the speech, among them the Muslim Council […]
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A colony of wankers
How do you rationalize a country’s enthusiasm for juvenile bathroom humor? If you’re British, you boast “it’s what separates us from Johnny Foreigner,” as if those of us unamused by flatulence jokes are unsophisticated rubes. How did we become addicted to rudeness – in the sense of fart-joke vulgarity as well as personal insult? Is […]
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