Category Archives: BBC
Who are 'Les Anglo-Saxons'?
Posted by on Mar 21, 2020
This week on Facebook: I wondered why the Francophone world had such a pejorative view of ‘Les Anglo-Saxons’¹, justified in part by the notion that Anglophones have of a ‘special relationship’² with the USA. They may have good reasons to hold such views, now Anglo-Saxon is a term employed by prominent politicians, serious academics, political commentators, and in everyday conversation”³. For example, Jean Claude Juncker (clearly not only a Francophone but also a Francophile) accused the Anglo-Saxons of hovering like vultures over the euro crisis, waiting to revel in its failure (4).
This week on Facebook: I wondered why the Francophone world had such a pejorative view of ‘Les Anglo-Saxons’¹, justified in part by the notion that Anglophones have of a ‘special relationship’² with the USA. They may have good reasons to hold such views, now Anglo-Saxon is a term employed by prominent politicians, serious academics, political commentators, and in everyday conversation”³. For example, Jean Claude Juncker (clearly not only a Francophone but also a Francophile) accused the Anglo-Saxons of hovering like vultures over the euro crisis, waiting to revel in its failure (4).
International Law: Does it exist?
Posted by on Jan 18, 2020
This week on Facebook: The notion — and last week’s post — led me the concept of international law and eventually Plato. International Law can be a avery boring subject in which finding articles that interested me (let alone any readers) was very difficult. Occasionally it gets a diplomat gets arrested for something other that avoiding parking fines, but for those who may be interested in international law there are Jstor references cited at ¹·². Read more of this post
Aasof on ‘A Christmas Carol’
Posted by on Dec 28, 2019
A Christmas Carol (complete versions) are available from Project Gutenberg but how did a ‘A Christmas Carol’ come to be written. The best explanation that I found was that the real-life inspiration for Tiny Tim had a much sadder fate than Tiny Tim in ‘A Christmas Carol’. Dickens’s frustration about poverty in Great Britain led to Lucinda Hawksley writing about the classic. ‘A Christmas Carol’ remains a popular story at Christmastime and the BBC constantly adapted it, most of their adaptations can be found in a RadioTimes article. Read more of this post
Aasof’s Reflections 