Starting the day with "Postcolonialism in Late 1980s Dr Who".
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(I remember a talk a couple of years back arguing for early Dr Who as an embodiment of British post-imperial self image - clever but not powerful, good with words, accepted in all kinds of places...)
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(Picking up that last quote as a useful gloss on Kipling's "With the Night Mail" and "As Easy as ABC".)
Recent Dr Who's deracialised cosmopolitanism as "so many coloured jelly babies inside a colourless (white) paper bag". - Orthia (2010)
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