Pochin is obviously a nutter, but she has simply noted that advertising (and broadcast media in general) works very hard to represent metropolitan values. Per usual in Britain this now dominates the … (View Post)

Another good argument for private education. (View Post)

The same cultural impulse that delivers massively disproportionate representation of ethnic minorities on our screens also ensures that fathers are invariably portrayed as hapless idiots. As I posted… (View Post)

We are not actually faced with such a choice, thank goodness. (View Post)

It seems to me that Captain Mainwaring, bumptious but fundamentally kind-hearted, and (Powell and Pressburger’s) Colonel Blimp, old-fashioned but honourable, are much better figures than the fear-mon… (View Post)