TV The final part of History of Now: The Story of the Noughties, Hello World! discussed globalisation and its acute effect on life in Britain during the decade, the important and export of people and goods with close attention paid as to how the UK has become one of the most multicultural societies in Europe (though one in ten of us actually lives abroad).
Which probably accounts for why, in the section about language I learnt all kinds of new words. The only one I knew was "random"; the last time I was anywhere near this kind of slang, skill was still in parlance as were shrapnel and swamp donkey. I know 'sick' although that just seems to be playing the reverse lexicography game of 'bad' or 'cool' to mean 'good' or 'hot'.
To the final annotation:
Topics
Globalisation
The Premiership
- The Drogba Effect
Migration
- Africans
- Eastern Europeans
- - Polish
Cheap Air Travel
- EasyJet
- Ryanair
- Virgin Express
- - Ljubljana 'Klagenfurt' (distance)
- - Milan 'Bergamo' (distance)
- - Frankfurt ‘Hahn’ (distance)
- City Breaks
- Stag Tours
International Ready-Meals
- Thai Food
Emigration
- Foreign Property Shows
- Dubai
- - Palm Jumeirah
- - The First Group
Iceland’s ownership
- Hamleys
- Iceland
- Debenhams / House of Fraser
- Karen Millen / Oasis
Made In China
- £19 dvd player leading to burglar redundancy
Bangalored
UK TV Formats
- The Weakest Link (various)
- Top Gear Australia
- Dancing With The Stars / Strictly Come Dancing
- Pop Idol / American Idol
- Who Wants To Be A Millionaire
- Wife Swap
- What Not To Wear
- How Clean Is Your House
- X-Factor
- Scrapheap Challenge
- Cash In The Attic
- The Office
Outsourcing Wars
- Private security contractors
London’s ethnic diversity
- Multi-cultural London English (MLE)
-- Yute
-- Sket
-- Low Batties
-- Nang
-- Nuff
-- Creps
-- Bredren
-- Peng
-- Batties
-- Ends
-- Random
Global Religion
- Islam
- Pentecostalism
2005
- Live8
- G20
- London 2012
- 7/7
Credit Crunch
Contributors
Andrew Marr Broadcaster [biog, wikipedia, amazon]
Will Hutton, The Work Foundation [wikipedia, blog, twitter, amazon]
Dr Rogan Taylor, Football Research Unit, University of Liverpool [biog, amazon]
Henry Winter, Football Correspondent, The Daily Telegraph [wikipedia, twitter, amazon]
Andrew Hussey, Cultural Historian [wikipedia, amazon]
Sky Andrew, Football Agent [wikipedia]
Prof Danny Dorling, Human Geographer, University of Sheffield [biog, amazon]
Nick Cohen, Journalist & Author [wikipedia, blog, amazon]
Agnes Poirier, Journalist & Author [biog, website, amazon]
Will Self [biog, wikipedia, blog, amazon]
Sarah Miller, Editor, Conde Nast Traveller [biog, blog]
Simon Calder, Travel Journalist [wikipedia, blog, website, twitter, amazon]
Tim Footman, Author, The Noughties [wikipedia, blog, twitter, amazon]
Jim Krane, Author, City of Gold [biog, amazon]
Peter York, Author, Social Commentator [wikipedia, amazon]
Roger Boyes, Author, Meltdown Iceland [wikipedia, blog, amazon]
Alda Sigmundsdottir, Journalist & Blogger [biog, blog, website, twitter]
Larry Elliott, Economics Editor, The Guardian [wikipedia, blog, amazon]
James Treadwell, Criminologist, University of Leicester [biog, amazon]
Wayne Garvie, BBC Worldwide [wikipedia, facebook]
Peter Bazalgette, Former Chairman, Endemol UK [wikipedia, blog, amazon]
Mark Lawson, Journalist & Broadcaster [wikipedia, amazon]
Simon Jenkins, Journalist & Author [wikipedia, blog, amazon]
Stephen Armstrong, Author & Journalist, War PLC [biog, amazon]
Michael Clark, Security Contractor [quoted]
Maajid Nawaz, The Quilliam Foundation [wikipedia, blog, twitter]
Nihal Arthanayake, Broadcaster & DJ [wikipedia, twitter]
John Micklethwait, Co-Author, God is Back [wikipedia, amazon]
You should get out more ;)
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