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The Smokiest Country in the World
The war on smoking is a cultural war. It’s got nothing to do with health. The war on obesity is also a cultural war. That’s got nothing to do with health either. And the war on carbon dioxide is another … Continue reading
The Spirit Of Place
I was quite impressed with Gloucester service station on Thursday. I was impressed with it as a piece of unpretentious architecture. It merged into the landscape. It was another low hill in a landscape of low hills. And grass grew … Continue reading
Grid Girl Gone
Following on from the walk-on girls a couple of days back, F1 grid girls are being eliminated too: Formula One grid girl Giorgia Davies has hit back at the so-called feminists who lobbied the motorsports industry to scrap her job, telling them … Continue reading
Cooking With Lard
I notice these things. I was watching Infowars live broascast yesterday, and they were showing a spoof black-and-white Twilight Zone that they’d put together. Compere Owen Shroyer played a big role in it. He seems to be quite a good … Continue reading
Cultural Degradation
From Nisaki:man: The number of smokers in Greece has decreased over the last five years, however, the non-implementation of a smoking ban in enclosed public places has irritated the public, which calls it “cultural degradation,” writes European affairs website euractiv.com. … Continue reading
Somebody Else’s Country
I was reading a week or two back that, over 2000 years since the event, archaeologists had discovered the site of Julius Caesar’s Roman invasion of Britain, at Ebbsfleet on the Isle of Thanet in 55 BC. Caesar didn’t stay … Continue reading
Who Are They?
I was thinking this morning about the NYC HUD smoking ban I mentioned yesterday. Smoking will be prohibited in public housing residences nationwide under a federal rule announced on Wednesday. I don’t think anyone who lives in public housing has … Continue reading
The Culture Of Place
The recent EU referendum in Britain, and the current US election, have set me thinking seriously about national identity. Why is it that people in one place so persistently regard themselves as in some way different from geographically adjacent peoples? … Continue reading
A Deepening Cultural Crisis
I was watching Margaret Thatcher, Death of a Revolutionary, today. What interested me about it was not so much Thatcher herself, but the accompanying political analysis, which went something like this: Post-war Britain had a post-war political consensus. Much of industry … Continue reading
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