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Like it’s one thing to not be arbitrarily tearing down a leader for every little thing and quite another to ignore reality (including that that a lot of the ‘Westminster bubble’ politicking and jockeying Baldwin despises are managed and initiated from within No. 10)

But I've been yapping to my students in my gender tutorials about her argument in the context of the histories of conversations and discourse about men, women and labour

That would track with them being of retirement age/older

SP = sans profession?

This is how George R R Martin got into the weeds

I’ve had to look this up! Adulterous time travel! It seems like an odd fantasy - structured around a world war being better than the present of the 1990s

There are some really good ones like this one which brings a new meaning to 'cutting the half-time orange', but a NSFW one for Mother's Day was truly exceptional, a legend, but the headline is a bit much for me to put on public-facing social media

My favourite, much returned-to example

Obviously difficult to disaggregate that from the fact that I was a small child in the 1990s and therefore sheltered from many things (and not living in the UK, also obviously)

Like, take me back to that lost world where the cultural memory of the SWW in Britain has lost its xenophobic dimensions please. 1991 (depicted through a historian's eyes) read again through a historian's eyes in 2025 looks like an imperfect world, but one full of hope and promise

I'm looking at The Myth of the Blitz to check stuff ahead of a lecture and saw this, in the introduction: "If I have steered away from the abyss, this is partly because I am reassured, in 1991, that the negative effects of the Myth on British societies have almost worked themselves out"

I think it would have been in 2021ish

At least when someone on an electric scooter did that yesterday I got to shout at them