Comments on: Re-creating utopia

By: Shuggy

Shuggy — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 04:34:08 +0000

Some things have changed for the better and some have not. People have been complaining about the death of community for years. I think there has been a real and tangible erosion of "community spirit" over the years and some aspects of this really has made society more unruly, but the mistake is always to assume that "community" is necessarily a benign phenomenon when they can be stifling and oppressive too.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 20:35:49 +0000

So what would the Fairy Godmother have to say to Robert and Nigel who have been happily living together for years?

“Right you dirty queers, you’re doing 10 years in Dartmoor for sodomy.”

Or Tasha the pregnant teenager?

“Sorry love, abortion’s cancelled but there is the old lady round the corner with the hot knife and the gin bottle.”

By: Tim Worstall

Tim Worstall — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 13:35:11 +0000

Britblog Roundup # 25

Yes, itÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s here, as an entire continent drowzes in the sufocating heat and forest fires sweep only 60 miles north of where I sit (scary, eh?) itÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s time for the Britblog Roundup. You can make nominations for next weekÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s extravaganza

By: David Duff

David Duff — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 17:03:32 +0000

One thing that is a great improvement today over the ’50s, occurred to me in the shower this morning – we all bathe much more often. I seem to remember it was one bath a week in my boyhood, and, Boy, did I need it!

By: Blimpish

Blimpish — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 22:13:31 +0000

Your loss, Jamie: your loss.

By: Jamie K

Jamie K — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 20:55:05 +0000

“…in the style of D. H. Lawrence.”

Naked wrestling followed by anal sex? Look, sunshine, I come from the WEST Midlands.

By: David Duff

David Duff — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 19:57:58 +0000

Well, that was a nice long list of ‘Things that Were Wrong with the Fifties’, including ‘Jamie K’s’ reminiscence, in the style of D. H. Lawrence, of grim life in the potteries.

So here is a list of ‘Things Wrong Today’ ……. oh, hell, it’s just too long and too boring and too depressing, and anyway, I hear the call of The Balvenie.

By: Blimpish

Blimpish — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 18:09:50 +0000

… but he was especially dud as peacetime PM. And even worse as Chancellor in the 1920s.

By: Nosemonkey

Nosemonkey — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 16:24:37 +0000

Dearieme – I’d say he was simply pretty dud. Making good speeches does not a good leader make – look at Ken Livingstone after the 7th july bombs. (Although in Ken’s favour at least he hasn’t tried to launch a pointless invasion of Norway…)

By: dearieme

dearieme — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 15:18:24 +0000

Come on, Blimpish, tell Nosemonkey that Churchill was a pretty dud wartime PM but a brilliant peacetime one.