Not a few people will have noticed the wordplays running through the UK’s student protests last week (I arrived in London just after these events). To begin with, students targetted Tory headquarters in Millbank:
Give or take an ‘l’, we all know that Milbank is a pseudonym for Alasdair MacLagan. However, the students seem to have taken a dislike to Alasdair, offering a more vigorous form of argumentation:
It was not that long ago that Maclagan and his protégée, Phillip Blond, were touting the virtues of ‘red toryism’. Other terms come to mind these days, like Tory Pigs:
Or Dickhead Tories:
The only things red about them, as AA suggests, seem to be the flames of burning effigies:
All the same, it is great to see the return to community values, the ‘big society’, the moral economy and popular custom, touted by Blond, Maclagan et al.
17 November, 2010 at 1:03 am
It is a shame you scared away Alasdair Maclagan. You created the monster who is posting articles on ABC.nets’s Religion and Ethics forum. I am waiting for him to get his own blog.
17 November, 2010 at 3:02 am
Now that would be fun, except he would probably moderate comments.
17 November, 2010 at 4:17 am
You are probably right. Sigh.
17 November, 2010 at 8:26 am
When are you going to write for ABC?
17 November, 2010 at 8:30 am
Ah, the problem here is that the editor of this Religion and Ethics section is a travelling salesman with whom I fell foul some time ago.
17 November, 2010 at 2:44 pm
Not shocked. lols.
17 November, 2010 at 11:09 am
They were right – it’s just like the Hobbits’ Shire.
17 November, 2010 at 5:41 pm
Except that Gandalf has turned out to be a henchman of Sauron.
1 December, 2010 at 4:22 pm
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