Posts Tagged ‘Brexit’
8. One Big Bad Mother Elfing
Editor’s Note: Long term readers will recall that we running a series by Luke Haines, our UK Editor and Correspondence. It seems to be about dragons and Baby Boomers and the demise of the environment. And apparently there’s some comedy involved. But we can’t be sure. It is way too complicated. And we’re such limited…
Read More7. Suck Fire, Brimstone Breath
Editor’s Note: Readers will recall that we are running a series of parodic pieces by Luke Haines. It is based on the Tolkien books and trashes Baby Boomers for screwing up the environment and the economy. The editors of LR Net are Baby Boomers, by the way. So surely Luke isn’t talking about us. Right?…
Read More6. Meet Mr. Dragon
Editor’s Note: Luke Haines has a done a series of parodic pieces about just how much his generation doesn’t care for Baby Boomers and other nasty people (like editors). This week, we meet …the Dragon! Who looks surprising familiar. Almost like an editor. Far above the encampment where the Dwarves were now attempting a sub-par…
Read More5. A Serious Lack Of Deus Ex Machina
Editor’s Note: Luke Haines has given us a series of short parodic pieces bashing Baby Boomers and using a few references to the LOTR books for background. This week’s is short. Luke says you shouldn’t get used to it. Way longer stuff to come. I stumbled back into the Dwarf encampment after about a mile…
Read More4. Interlude with Pigs
Editor’s Note: Long term readers will know that we are running a series of short, comic pieces by Luke Haines which whack selfish Baby Boomers and/or Dragons (six of one). This week, we get the Ermitrude the pig, plus the Bechdel Test. “Jeeeeeeeeesus…” I winced as I sat up. I’d slept in my clothes, which…
Read MoreBackward March: A Brexit Update
According to Chaos Theory, a simple set of rules cannot be imposed on a complex system without causing a catastrophic breakdown. Many of you will know this if you’ve ever tried to open a dinosaur safari park. A slightly more contemporary example can be see in Britain’s continued pursuit of the racist pipe dream that…
Read MoreThe Gathering Storm: Brexit and the Return of Tony Blair.
Tony Blair once privately complained that Britain is a country that doesn’t like success. Which is an odd thing to complain about, as a huge chunk of Britain would view Tony Blair as a failure, which means, by his own logic, that he should be held in great esteem by his people. He’s not, of…
Read MoreThe Anglosphere…Or Not
So I ran across an interesting term a year or so back, “The Anglosphere.” What this is, basically, is the English-speaking nations of the world considered as a single social, economic, and political grouping—i.e., Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. Why I find the Anglosphere interesting politically is that at least some…
Read MoreBrexit Crystal Ball
One of the many, many unpleasant things about the rightwards trend in modern politics is that we have to engage with things we’d rather not. The Nazis were unpleasant enough when they were just the bad guys in an Indiana Jones movie; now that they’re walking through the streets with placards it’s all a bit…
Read MoreYet Another Brexit Update
image source Because some of us can’t get enough of staring into the void, it’s time for another Brexit roundup! All the news that fits about the UK’s upcoming political, cultural and financial suicide. **This edition is brought to you by old wooden planks with a nail in them – are you struggling to…
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