The long term pattern still holds: life gets better. And 2009 could have been a lot worse. Though 2010 . .. .
Posts Tagged ‘Theodore Dalrymple’
13 Dec
Janice Turner: more evidence for the miserabilists?
Janice Turner’s memory of teen pregnancy rates in her childhood clashes with statistics.But there is no denying the difficulty some places have coping with the loss of manufacturing/reliable work for the untutored bloke.
29 Nov
Bad History – an addiction for the miserabilists
A new column called Bad History debunks some of the classic miserabilism that fuels the illiberal Tory right.
9 Nov
Clarkson, Dalrymple, the patriotic urge to leave the country
Do you know what the most popular post on this blog is? I mean, easily the most popular? It is “Reflections on whether life is now sh1t“, a post inspired by (several posts before) musings by Theodore Dalrymple at the Conservative Party conference on the subject of poverty. I was not so much reflecting on [...]
9 Oct
Quick one: so, is the United Kingdom now sh1t?
A really obvious question: is life in the UK now utterly sh1t?
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