Bristol City view

Scruton.

 

Very nice. Proper out in the sticks.

 

I was so fed up with education I went straight back to Barnsley and took a job on the Chronicle!

Ended up, via circuitous route, a barrister but would give anything to turn the clock back.

Must be wonderful place to settle, most envious and really miss academic life.

Chose Emma owing to reputation for taking northern comp applicants and true enough was in halls right next to a lad who kicked lumps out of me when I played for Darton against his lot from Bradford!

 

I appreciate that the op spoke of grubby areas of Bristol, but my question to RedYarmy merely asked why he liked Cambridge.

So, Bright Red, I don't get why you have said "shut your eyes to the grubby areas of life - that way your sensitive souls will not be damaged too much".

As I originally come from Athersley, I can recognise that most areas have good and bad points/places. Cambridge included !

Apologies if I've misunderstood.

 

Just seen what you studied. Must have been fascinating doing that during Perestroika and the run up to the collapse of the USSR. I just had to do an exam on Russian history for my residency permit, though I doubt it was as rigorous as yours. It was all in Russian though, which adds a little bit of kudos I guess!

 

Cambridge ? surely worth a punt for anybody

 

It was bizarre. I was doing 1905 and 1917 at a time it was all coming apart. The wall came down when and there was real excitement about what would happen next.

Guess you're in the best position to judge that but from afar looks like Putin trying to claw it all back!

Respect for mastering the language. I never get close.

 

Not really sure what Putin "wants" as such, apart from to cling to power no matter what. There's the possibility of things going very tits up here in the next few years, but a more likely scenario is an Argentina-style slow death, with years of stagnation. Moscow and St Petersburg will be relatively insulated, but there's the potential for a lot of umbrage in the regions, as people go back from buying consumer goods to again existing on a day to day subsistence level.

 

I have an aunt, uncle and three cousins, who leave in Yate (few miles outside Bristol). Last year I spent about a week there on various courses.
My family are top top people they have the accent but nothing else! they have live there over 30 years but still consider themselves Yorkshire people (leeds fans 4 the record, err that's coz they are from there though).
They slag off their neighbours saying they are pig ignorant and don't like talking like we do up North.
They cant wait to get up here and love talking to what they think us of as......real people, also they like the beer n fish and chips.

 

Sounds like it's time for some Marxist dialectical materialism and spontaneous seizing of the means of production by the masses.

Leave it a couple of years and it could be on the hundredth anniversary.

Talk about history repeating.

 

Most of the masses outside of Moscow and St Petersburg are completely brainwashed with government propaganda. Whether they'll remain brainwashed when they can no longer afford basic foodstuffs is yet to be seen. However, no protest in Rostov or Chelyabinsk is likely to pose a serious threat to the government. That can only happen in Moscow, where people are still relatively affluent. If the economy doesn't pick up, my guess is that the next major flash point will be the parliamentary elections in 2016, which will doubtless be fixed.