In July I’ll be delivering my cheerily titled paper "Everything inside has gone – a life among the ruins" for the 9th international conference of the European Popular Culture Association (EPCA), #eupop2022 , Jagiellonian University, July 14th–16th, 2022.
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I followed Nigel Farage on and off for 10 years.
When all's said and done about his standing in Clacton, milkshake incident etc, he remains at the end of the day one of the most repugnant shameless liars in UK history.
Some of his standout lesser-known lies I've compiled FTR 🧵
The wife feels lonely and sad, but the husband has no idea why. They love each other but don't like each other anymore.
This is by far the most common married couple who comes to me for help. And there's a specific reason this is happening.
Here's the reason:
How do you incubate a mind virus? How do you cause a culture to self-destruct? In 1984, this KGB defector exposed the 4-stages identified by Soviet intelligence as the necessary steps to cause the psychological implosion of American society.
Stage 1: Demoralization (15–20 yrs)
We are dismayed that Birmingham, the UK’s second city, will lose almost all its council funding for the arts over the next 2 years.
Defunding the arts will harm quality of life, exacerbate inequalities & set back economic recovery.
It will only make our problems worse.
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In Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), Dr Seward’s journals are famously ‘Kept in Phonograph’. Join me for a nerdy deep dive in which I, brandishing back-of-an-envelope math, calculate the cost of Seward's phonograph habit, & encounter a creature more uncanny than Dracula himself! 1/13
TAKE THE RIGHT STEPS (1985): Stepladder safety PIF, rightly legendary for the shot of a burly stuntman in an Aunt May wig going for a burton into a glass display cabinet. And that's Bill 'Compo' Owen on V.O. duties!