THE WORLD *head in hands*
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Titling This Took Three Times Longer than Writing It So Please Just Read and Put Us Both Out of Our Misery
I’ve not got the energy to devote another news post to The Media Versus Sherlock, but you guys really need to read this. 1) Everyone satirises politicians 2) Everyone satirises – or dramatises – the Murdoch empire (see Reichenbach for more tabloid fun!) 3) Journalists need to quit using popular culture as an excuse to spew their political ideas. Continue reading
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The Six O’Clock News: a Quick Lesson Borrowed from an Actual Lesson
As I hauled myself out of bed this morning the newsreader bloke mentioned that some higher-up in the EU had spoken out against the British government for spreading “myths” about immigration. I thought a few swearwords that are usually too foul for that time of day except I was late and did not need to Continue reading
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Indifferent Ignorance Awards 2013
They aren’t in June 2014! Book of the Year This one was tough… A Thousand Splendid Suns, We Need to Talk About Kevin, my John’s Gospel commentary by AM Hunter… No really, you should compare Hunter to some of the others. Little tip, scholars: when it comes to sentences, less is almost always more. That Continue reading
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The Ten O’Clock News: Another Tribute
I really don’t know where to start with this post. I garbled a bit about Mandela in June when everyone was all “he’s going to die soon! We had better write something really intense beforehand so that we don’t look like we’re following the crowd when he has died!” And now he has and I Continue reading
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