¿La demonización de la clase obrera es un fenómeno exclusivamente británico? La demonización es inevitable en todas partes por las desigualdades. Si lo piensas, la desigualdad es irracional: el poder y la riqueza no deberían estar en manos de tan poca gente. La desigualdad se racionaliza y justifica con la idea de que los miembros... Continue Reading →
[Cracked] 5 Things Only Poor Teens Understand About Poverty
Because when you're hurting for the essentials, deodorant is a luxury. So is laundry soap. The average person doesn't put much thought into which soap does what job -- you just buy it because you know you need it. But when you're poor, the whole soap industry is a cruel, ridiculous joke. There's one kind... Continue Reading →
[Independent] Police claim woman ‘making eye contact with passers-by’ is begging and ‘ban her from sitting on ground’
PC Carl Repper, Ilford Town Centre Team, said: "Our work was about stopping begging in the town centre. "We received a number of complaints that it was having a negative impact on how the town centre was viewed. "Tackling begging and anti-social behaviour will show people that Ilford Town Centre is not a place where it... Continue Reading →
[Daily Mail] Calls for Tory councillor to resign after he suggests parents on benefits should be sterilised after one child
This is yet another example of 'Breakdown Britain', much of which stems from the Government-encouraged change away from the hard-working and decent family structure to an increasingly self-indulgent immoral and state-funded lazy lifestyle. "Children become just a means toward that end, and are of themselves of little if any further significance in this new society.... Continue Reading →
[The Guardian] Jeremy Kyle Show ‘undermines anti-poverty efforts’, says thinktank
"They speak with strong regional accents (occasionally even strong regional dialects), they dress in very non-glamorous ways (at times bordering on the scruffy), they often display an almost total lack of the kind of cultural capital that might moderate the behaviour of others on television, but above all they appear to be entirely bereft of... Continue Reading →
[HAZLIFT] On Mick Jagger, Mockney Accents, and Being a Chav
There’s a lineage of middle and upper-class British pop stars, actors and chefs who’ve affected a Cockney accent as part of their persona—whether opportunistically or as a form of tribute. Then the Chav came along. Does how we speak say anything about the person we are? https://hazlitt.net/feature/mick-jagger-mockney-accents-and-being-chav
Clare Holdstock
Art from the estate council http://www.clareholdstock.co.uk/CONCRETE-WASTELAND
[The Guardian] The lawyer representing survivors and victims in the Grenfell Tower fire inquiry asks of the advisory panel: «Do they know anything about social housing? How many of them have lived in a tower block?»
La desconfianza tiene efectos en la participación. ¿Hablan nuestra misma lengua? https://www.facebook.com/theguardian/videos/10156303062666323/
Los caimanes bailan sobre la arena 