Tolkein's work also got taken up in a big way by the 60s hippy counterculture in America and, to a much lesser extent, here. Pinning political labels on works of art that aren't explicitly … (View Post)

Gilbert and Sullivan beat Orwell to it by the better part of a century. They described in the Mikado: "The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country bu… (View Post)

Isn't working out so badly for the Ukrainians ... (View Post)

It is amusing hearing a Nat accuse other people of shagging flags - whenever I've been in Scotland in the last decade I saw the Saltire pretty much everywhere I looked. Anywhere remotely officia… (View Post)

I don't think he was a nationalist either - he was (and is) pro-Boris, and would be nationalist or internationalist as he thought it suited him. (View Post)