Tag: opinion
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Constructed reality TV is the new ‘elite erotica’ and The Real Housewives are its biggest stars
With their fast cars, petty troubles and expensive hobbies, we’re fascinated with how the other half live. Harry Browse argues that this desire to gawp at the lives of the rich is not only unhealthy, but downright perverted. It’s impossible to avoid the onslaught of so-called constructed reality television. Launched in 2014 to satisfy a […]
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Brexit: why the language needs to change
Semantic satiation is the phrase given to the psychological experience of saying a word so many times in a row that it begins to lose all meaning, essentially transforming speech into a series of empty sounds. This is what happens to the language of Brexit. The Online English Dictionary recorded the first known use of […]
Harry Browse 