Straight into my research fund!

The royalties are small, but it’s a boost for authors to see that people are reading their work.
Especially for those of us working in isolation!

A rural/ urban split, perhaps. Our North Yorks surgery gives a brilliant service. Friends in towns and cities have quite different tales to tell, usually how impossible to book a slot.
Problem here is surviving an out-of-hours emergency when 20 miles from help!

A stable one, though?

I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke.

IG bscomedian

Just one bad apple of course.

Eliminate the poor, more like.

We’re into ‘useless eaters’ territory here.

The misogyny directed at Barbara Castle was off the scale.
The ‘ban the bag’ campaign was just the start…

Teesside Park is a dystopian nightmare.

Who’d have thought it?

imo big part is simply that people respond positively to politicians that seem to be speaking honestly and in a "normal human being" register, as opposed to communications trained evasions and elisions. So much so that they vote for this:

Also: see Wales.
20 mph starts out as a pain, soon becomes second nature.