Category Archives: Gert’s Politics Course
Boris In The Willows
Gert recently set off an interesting exchange with this letter to the paper:
Do the parties in Downing St remind anyone else of the weasels and stoats taking over Toad Hall in Wind in the Willows?
Correspondents had a lot of fun, as you can see:
Gaslighting
When she was a child, Gert used to tell her little brother stories about a place called Arrapamatta. These stories became the Denis Kodaly work The 1001 Nights Of Iarcus Oralto. The talk-back radio program was invented in Arrapamatta, as was the art of gaslighting. Continue reading Gaslighting
Plus ça change
Some new political metaphors
Dario Fo March 24 1926- October 10 2016
Exremely loud and incredibly close
Weasel words: commitments?promises?possibilities?
Weasel words
Another outstanding entry in our roll of weasel words: Continue reading Weasel words