Postliberal Punk

I am sorry, but Doctor Who, which was never officially cancelled and which the BBC always said would come back one day, needs to be given another prolonged break. It has gone well and truly off the boil.

Which is one way into saying that I am sure that I must belong to one or more alternative subcultures, now to be protected by law, or at least by Greater Manchester Police. But to which one or ones, dear readers? And why?

Considering the Constabulary in question, a longstanding character in Coronation Street ought to be made over into a goth, another into a punk, a third into a metaller, and a fourth into an emo. Shall we say, Ken and Deidre Barlow as a couple, Norris Cole, Dennis and Rita Tanner as a couple, and Emily Bishop? Dennis was stoned on hash brownies only last night.

For all I know, John Milbank has already published the Radical Orthodox basis and critique of the Postliberal basis and critique of each of Gothism (what a word is "Gothic", in such a context), Punkism, Metallerism, Emoism, Young Fogeyism, Steampunkism, and so many others. I do not mean this as a joke.

And as John would be the first to point out, these things cannot be without far-reaching political implications.