Tag: english

Why not ‘Muffin the Mule’ because ‘we love Muffin …’: TV was so different then; Received Pronunciation and Puppets on Visible Strings

August 26, 2025

Why not ‘Muffin the Mule‘ because ‘we love Muffin …’: TV was so different then: Received Pronunciation and Puppets on Visible Strings BBC: Annette Mills and Muffin the Mule in For the Children, 1952. Muffin was the first Children’s TV superstar, clopping along to his theme tune ‘Here comes Muffin’! Available: https://www.bbc.co.uk/historyofthebbc/bbc-100/100-faces/muffin-the-mule/ Here comes Muffin, … More Why not ‘Muffin the Mule’ because ‘we love Muffin …’: TV was so different then; Received Pronunciation and Puppets on Visible Strings

Maybe the performance of difference need not involve ‘camping’!

April 29, 2025

This WordPress prompt ought to have been a gift to me – with a long history in LGBTQI+ politics, the word ‘camp’ has always had a history to reclaim. But to say ‘word’ in description of the term ‘camp’ here is not enough. I got stopped in my tracks from answering this question as I … More Maybe the performance of difference need not involve ‘camping’!