British Politics

Фаркед - членососка-коммуняка

 

Not even interesting in blokes, sorry to disappoint you.

 

The UK appears set to criminalise illicit refugee crossings and could ship asylum seekers for processing in other countries after ministers easily saw off a potential rebellion in the Commons over the controversial borders and nationality bill.

The bill will now be reconsidered by the Lords, possibly at the end of this month.

The government has argued its approach is necessary to stop people making dangerous Channel boat trips with people smugglers.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-rebellion-averted?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

 

You really are a repulsive little ****

 

better than being a junkie.

Dont you have to go inject yourself or something?

 

But its still our fault

Nasty white man

 

As she seems to lay no blame at the door of her captors, maybe the UK could lock her up for 6 years by way of an apology?

 

Isn’t it time for your Stupid pill?

 

It’s not your fault that you were born ******ed, and you have clearly been let down by the education system. However, the fact that you are a tragic failure whose life is so shallow and meaningless he must spend all day on the internet hating everything, is something you must take responsibility for.

 

Did you take that grainy image of the angry Santa in your avatar just after you'd told him what you want for Christmas?

Have you read much Tolstoy? I've tried a few of the so called classics, and been disappointed by most of them. Ploughing through Dostoevsky at the minute, and wondering what the fuss is about.

Mind you, it's probably something to do with how my mind works, as I can't think of starting Anna Karenina because I just get an image of Olive from On The Buses.

 

Dostoevsky is hard work. I’ve heard he’s difficult to translate and a lot of the nuance and humour gets lost. I enjoyed The Gambler, found Crime and Punishment a slog but worth the effort.

I recommend Turgenev’s Notes From a Hunter’s Diary if you like short stories. Very fond of Chekhov, did you see the BBC production of Uncle Vanya recently? Well worth tracking that down, maybe on the iplayer.

Tolstoy is quite simply the greatest novelist who ever lived. Someone, can’t remember who, once said “if the world itself could write, it would write like Tolstoy.” Tolstoy is to prose what Shakespeare is to dramatic verse, incomparable, majestic, profound, inspired. The GOAT.

If you have a taste for political satire that is both mystical and absurd, you might want to try The Master and Margarita by Mikhael Bulgakov. Written in the 1930s but wasn’t published until after Stalin and Bulgakov had both died. Bulgakov was an opium user and that bleeds through into the novel, which is full of dream like sequences. It’s a very strange, very moving and troubling work.

Getting the right translation can make all the difference when reading Russians. Husband and wife team Larissa Volokhonsky and Richard Peaver are generally acclaimed as among the best. They’re working their way through all the classics.

 

Cheers, I'll get those stuck on my reading list.

 

A Steinbeck fan myself. Got quite into Hardy at A level. I ( surprisingly) quite enjoyed Chaucer in Middle English.