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En defensa de la cocina británica

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En defensa de la cocina británica

Ah, la comida británica. Un tema a que la gente le gusta poner a parir con regularidad. ¿Y quiénes son los acusados de echar las broncas? Pues, suelen ser los... chan, chan... españoles. Voy a empezar este post con un par de preguntas: ¿Por qué tenéis tanta manía a la cocina británica? ¿Es que habéis oído tanta gente quejarse del tema que creéis que es algo guay? ¿Cuántos platos británicos típicos has probado en tu vida? ¿O solo es que habéis probado un fish and chips de un pequeño, sucio chippy londinense rodeado por turistas? (Algo que se podría comparar con comer una paella en … [Read more...]

Top British TV thrillers of 2014

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Top British TV thrillers of 2014

You must be living under a rock (or somewhere without a stable Internet connection) if you haven't been thoroughly caught up in the recent flurry of top notch television series. The gaping hole left after the departure of Breaking Bad and the season wraps of other applauded names such as Game of Thrones and True Detective urged me to look for other quality series to get stuck into. And I found them in the UK. Great TV is a British institution, especially comedy, with the likes of Peep Show, The Office, Black Books and Spaced, to name a few. This year, however, it's the turn of the Thriller … [Read more...]

…But they’ll never take our freedom?

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...But they’ll never take our freedom?

I come from Scotland. The land of the free and the home of the brave... or something like that. The country that brought us television, the telephone, and Trainspotting; The land whose national diet screams “YOLO” and whose dialect uses the word “fucking” the same way that most people use a comma. This is, arguably, the most important year in Scottish history for hundreds of years – it’s the year we’ll decide whether to divorce our overbearing husband to the South, or to remain in a loveless marriage for the rest of our days. Let’s be clear from the offset: this has nothing to do with … [Read more...]