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Britain
British Degeneracy on Parade
2011-08-11
h/t Belmont
The ferocious criminality exhibited by an uncomfortably large section of the English population during the current riots has not surprised me in the least. I have been writing about it, in its slightly less acute manifestations, for the past 20 years. To have spotted it required no great perspicacity on my part; rather, it took a peculiar cowardly blindness, one regularly displayed by the British intelligentsia and political class, not to see it and not to realize its significance. There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.
Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#5  I learned everything I know about "British Degeneracy" from watching a season of Footballers Wives a few years back.
Posted by: Capsu78   2011-08-11 18:37  

#4  "Unrede" meaning ill-advised.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2011-08-11 16:55  

#3  Aethelred the Redeless good history there Charger.
The unready.
Posted by: Dale   2011-08-11 12:55  

#2   ...rather, it took a peculiar cowardly blindness, one regularly displayed by the British intelligentsia and political class, not to see it and not to realize its significance.

The spirit of Aethelred the Redeless lives on.
Posted by: charger   2011-08-11 11:15  

#1  This calls for internment camps. Please send for Lord Kitchener.
Posted by: Besoeker   2011-08-11 10:44  

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