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Two on British Culture

2014-01-09 18:16:25.894738+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Britain still at war over legacy of World War I:

In an article for the right-of-center Daily Mail newspaper, Education Secretary Michael Gove said "Blackadder" and other satires had created a public impression of the four-year war - in which more than 8 million troops and millions of civilians died - as "a misbegotten shambles - a series of catastrophic mistakes perpetrated by an out-of-touch elite."

Yeah, and?

Daisy Buchanan in The Guardian: Good on the Naked Rambler – more public nudity would be a good thing:

Stephen Gough. 'Why is it OK to hint at highly sexualised nudity all day long and then persecute a normal man for getting naked.'

[ related topics: Sexual Culture History Nudity Journalism and Media Education Flowers ]

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