tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post5917835357060202807..comments2024-02-21T08:52:55.878+00:00Comments on Your Freedom and Ours: Week-end silenceHelenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13799545178433498944noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-24336529880552572652010-06-15T19:43:03.000+01:002010-06-15T19:43:03.000+01:00Morpork, I followed the link but never got around ...Morpork, I followed the link but never got around to reading the article. What a splendidly miserable face! So quintessentially NewStatesmanesque! Do you think she was being knowing and ironic, in a '90s sort of way, by posing like that or was she just keen to get hired - that is, is miserabilism as mandatory at the NS as its reputation suggests?Vinny Burgoonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-27524355507677936362010-06-14T23:00:56.000+01:002010-06-14T23:00:56.000+01:00Bosh. That is all I can say. Hysteria comes from p...Bosh. That is all I can say. Hysteria comes from people getting hysterical about a mediocre team. I was brought up to revere footballers like Ferenc Puskas and Pele. So, spare me the snotty anti-middle class arguments.Helennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-8264801587563680662010-06-14T20:16:02.000+01:002010-06-14T20:16:02.000+01:00Unfortunately, a lot of the "hysteria" a...Unfortunately, a lot of the "hysteria" about the World Cup these days comes from commentators and bloggers, often female, sometimes male but nearly always from that bien pensant part of the middle class who do not like to see the not-so-bien peasant orders enjoying themselves, who always say things like "I would support England if it were not for the hysteria".<br /><br />Shame on you Helen. Next you'll be writing this sort of enlightening stuff: http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/laurie-penny/2010/06/world-cup-football-englandmorporknoreply@blogger.com