The Queen’s Speech, 2007.
Talk is widespread among politicians and reporters alike, much filled with a sense of disappointment at the failure of Brown’s great vision to materialise, a vision for “a Britain that realises all of the talents of all the people”.
Britain should use oil to discipline King Abdullah.
This last week it was not the familiar surroundings of British corporate capitalism and consumer culture I woke up to, but rather the oppressive totalitarian government of Oceania. Previously I had thought repressive media control to be the sole reserve of dystopian fictional texts and the nations from which they derive thematic reference; Soviet Russia […]