anglonoiac, u.s.?
"Very often people do not understand the title of the country," Dr Howells told MPs of Commons culture select committee yesterday. "In America, people had heard of London, some had heard of England, no one had heard of the United Kingdom - they thought it was somewhere in the Middle East."Guardian UK, 'Americans ignorant of their UK kinsfolk"
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I love Kim Howells. Some choice quotes:
On nasty English folk music:For a simple urban boy such as me, the idea of listening to three Somerset folk singers sounds like hell.
On the nasty Royal Family:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/1266901.stm’>This isn't the first generation. They're all a bit bonkers. They choose very strange partners, they're not managing the modern world very well.
On the ageing conservative self-appointed guardians of ‘crachach’ [derogatory Welsh word for the upper class] culture in Wales: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/1614283.stm’>The Arts have been in the grip of a bunch of constipated old wrinklies for far too long.
Kim was a coal miner and went to art school. What’s not to love?
And the UK being somewhere in the Middle East. Ho ho! Great stuff.
Posted by: gwen | November 20, 2002 6:20 AM
Oh hell. I messed that up. I've forgotten html. [note to self: must start posting again]
Once more, from the top:
On nasty English folk music:For a simple urban boy such as me, the idea of listening to three Somerset folk singers sounds like hell.
On the nasty Royal Family:This isn't the first generation. They're all a bit bonkers. They choose very strange partners, they're not managing the modern world very well.
On the ageing conservative self-appointed guardians of ‘crachach’ [derogatory Welsh word for the upper class] culture in Wales: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/1614283.stm’>The Arts have been in the grip of a bunch of constipated old wrinklies for far too long.
Let's see if this works ...
Posted by: gwen | November 20, 2002 6:24 AM
Shit. Sort of. The URL for the last one is:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/1614283.stm
Posted by: gwen | November 20, 2002 6:28 AM