The Posh Club has everything: Elvis impersonators, 50 rockabilly, men in braces and cravats, vintage crockery, caberet, and crutches.: “We’re the only club event in the world where someone was rushed to the hospital because they forgot to take their drugs.”
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Zadie Smith’s Swing Time
I liked, but did not love this book.The book begins with failure. Or “my humiliation” as the narrator, a young woman, puts it. The young woman has been sent back to London by some unknown employer. She is hiding in considerable affluence and is tasked with avoiding the public, not to escalate a situation. From …
Terrible news from Britain this morning, The so-called #Brexit really feels like the beginning of the end of something great. The European Union, with all its flaws, is still a great idea I strongly believe in; it has brought stability and possibility to European peoples in a way no conventional nation-state could before. To see it …
Academics put job offers on ice over Brexit vote
Academic exchange and mobility is just one of aspect of British-European relations that will be damaged if the British public gives in to the populists and votes for a so-called Brexit on June 23rd. Academics put job offers on ice over Brexit vote
CLARITY AND CHAOS 