Adam Elgar, you are greatly troubled by Eliot's racism? OK. Snobbery?OK. Religiosity? You mean religion I suppose, but OK. Monarchism? You are greatly troubled by his monarchism? Do you mean he liked Britain having a King? Or did he think America should have a king? Can you explain why his monarchism greatly troubles you? Auden said he thought the best system of government would be monarchy by lot. OK, that's just Auden being Audenish. Louis MacNeice was a terrible lefty, next door to a communist really, like many people a the BBC. But it doesn't bother me at all.
Sorry. This sounds aggressive. Discount that. But I really do want to know.
Re PC. Sorry to bang on but a man in the UK has just been arrested for the serial rape of a lot of old women. He is 52, comes from the West Indies, and though we have not been allowed to seee a photograph, we know he is ethnically 86% black, 8% chinese |(I think) and 6% white. But the original police impression of him showed a white man in a black woolly hat, though they KNEW he came from the West Indies. Not a very useful impression, you would think, and why did they publish one like that? Well, according to me, the police in the UK are very PC. They recently arrested a student for the 'hate crime' of calling a police horse 'gay'. 'Gay' is slang among the young and is mildly derogatory meaning something like 'useless'. Sorry, but there it is. Young people use it (and perhaps they shouldn't) who would not think of bad-mouthing a gay person. Although it is emphatically not true that no young person in the UK is anti-gay, most of them are not.
Sam - newawlins. Got that. Where to I live? I live in Cambry.
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