How England Sees Itself
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luka
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i have to be honest, i think this is infinitely preferable
john eden
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I think most of the public health community - not to mention cleaners across the country - woud agree with you.
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I liked this from that Mass-Observation article I posted elsewhere,
Harrisson sat out “May the Twelfth,” writing to a friend, “It was a crazy idea to have it edited by a whole bunch of intellectual poets.” Jennings decided that Harrisson was a philistine, and quit. He didn’t abandon the ideas of Mass-Observation, however. He began to collect descriptions, in poetry and prose, of machines and the changes they had wrought in human life throughout history. He called the descriptions “Images,” and, as he assembled them, he came to believe that they could be read as “a continuous narrative or film on the Industrial Revolution,” much as he had meant “May the Twelfth” to be read as a film of the coronation. He carried the clippings, which eventually filled twelve notebooks, in a weather-beaten suitcase. When a Surrealist friend asked what was inside, Jennings answered, “Pandemonium.” Naming his anthology after the city that Lucifer and his fallen angels forged in Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” Jennings wrote, “The building of Pandaemonium is the real history of Britain for the last three hundred years.”
Harrisson sat out “May the Twelfth,” writing to a friend, “It was a crazy idea to have it edited by a whole bunch of intellectual poets.” Jennings decided that Harrisson was a philistine, and quit. He didn’t abandon the ideas of Mass-Observation, however. He began to collect descriptions, in poetry and prose, of machines and the changes they had wrought in human life throughout history. He called the descriptions “Images,” and, as he assembled them, he came to believe that they could be read as “a continuous narrative or film on the Industrial Revolution,” much as he had meant “May the Twelfth” to be read as a film of the coronation. He carried the clippings, which eventually filled twelve notebooks, in a weather-beaten suitcase. When a Surrealist friend asked what was inside, Jennings answered, “Pandemonium.” Naming his anthology after the city that Lucifer and his fallen angels forged in Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” Jennings wrote, “The building of Pandaemonium is the real history of Britain for the last three hundred years.”
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This narrative's appeared recently about how Britain doesn't take Games Workshop seriously enough despite it being one of our great success stories because it's Games Workshop and not something proper. Grand Theft Auto's fucking massive too, but you don't really hear about it in those terms either. They seem to be two things we've actually done well, but which don't quite register as such.
Another of those investment briefings wg was on about...
www.ft.com
Another of those investment briefings wg was on about...
Triumph of the orcs: why Britain needs more Games Workshops
Those who despair at the UK’s inability to spawn a Facebook should look to the country’s creative industries
www.ft.com
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Ill-fated Monmouth Rebellion remembered 340 years on in Somerset
Exhibition opens this week in Taunton Castle, where mass death sentences were infamously issued during Bloody Assizes
www.theguardian.com