Tony Blair

You may want to watch Tony Blair's speech to get a sense of the way he speaks :

part 1




part 2



This is an extract from the speech and a short analysis by BBC -News.

Here is a short video summarizing the PM's last speech to the Labour Conference in 2006.

SEMINAR 7 has changed since last year

Please beware : seminar 7 is not the same seminar as last year. So make sure you get it off the Cergy website or off the google group. We will be working on a 1980 speech by Margaret Thatcher. 

Questions for seminar 6 : the wind of change

1. Describe the international, British and South African context in which this speech was given. 
   
2. Who is MacMillan? Is his message consistent with his party's position on the issue? 
3. Whom is Harold MacMillan adressing in this speech and what is he saying to each audience? 
   
4. How is decolonisation described in the speech? Look at the specific words chosen by MacMillan. Explain the rationale for such rhetoric. 
5. What is the Commonwealth? How is it presented in the speech? 
6. Analyse MacMillan's message to South Africa. 

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my mistake

Actually the document I suggest you read is on the Cergy website, under the heading Seminar 6. 

I will put it up on the google group ASAP. 

Enjoy the end of your break, 

AM

Comedian Jon Stewart interviewed Hillary Clinton on monday and last night he used one of the words from urban-dictionnary :

update

Dear all, 

I'm pretty angry at Cergy for not putting up the photocopies I had made of the relevant pages of Poverty and Welfare in Britain. What a complete waste of my time. 

However the photocopies are also available in the library of Les Chênes : just ask for the book at the front desk. 

A quick read through the British papers ought to have interested you : Prince Harry was serving in Afghanistan for the last couple weeks. The British media had agreed to keep it quiet until he came home in order not to endanger him and his fellow soldiers. 

In the Guardian the journalist drew  a parallel with Prince Edward of Wales ( later Edward VIII) who had not been allowed to serve on the frontlines during World War I. Now the media and the public opinion are split on how to interpret "Harry's War" : 

- was it a media/PR (=public relations) stunt (=une cascade ; un coup médiatique)?

- was he genuinely sent there to serve as a 'normal military personnel)?