Archive for Fiona Craig

Be a Better Britophile: Why We Love a Loser

Oct 10, 2008 Comments Off by

. A blogumn by Fiona Craig What’s wrong with us? We won a shed load of medals this summer at the Beijing Olympics and nobody quite knows what to make of it. Some of the gold medallists appeared on breakfast TV, others on quiz shows but generally the congratulatory backslapping was cringe worthy TV. We’re [...]

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Be a Better Britophile: Loads Better Than Sesame Street

Sep 26, 2008 6 Comments by

. A blogumn by Fiona Craig To really get to the core of the British psyche you have to toddle down the murky corridors of our past. Not to the time of the Roman invasion or the Norman Conquest must we look, but in fact somewhere a little closer to teatime. While mothers dallied themselves [...]

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Be a Better Britophile

Sep 12, 2008 3 Comments by

. A blogumn by Fiona Craig A Scotswoman weighs in on all things British How to Get Pissed… Properly The Brits love drinking. I don’t just mean a couple of glasses of Chablis with our evening meal like our oh-so-suave French neighbours. I mean we really love drinking as in, a couple of bottles of [...]

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