Yeah new silk-stockinged superhero needed, Capability Town (thanks to @whittipedia.bsky.social for inspiration)

So what class is this person seen as then?

In UK would almost entirely depend on what the low-paid work was + context of doing it (“minimum wage” implies things too). Crass I think for most Brits to look at income above all, though I’m interested what brassy new rich + v successful migrants think

Are there tariffs on Canadian tuxedos? 👕👖

Did they ask their Texas-based confrere?

Timely for a Staffs business as Stoke-on-Trent Tory leader moves to Reform!

Parochial, lower form of UK political + media discourse where policy/political trends in other countries is instrumentalised to make arguments purely about domestic UK politics - particularly patronising when it is a developing country that the arguers are hazy about (Venezuela passim)

I misread that as Milei! 😬

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Her Falklands moment?

Underrated Tweet! What about Dickens, do you give American Notes a hard pass? Quentin Crisp? James Wood?

So are Nick Robinson and the BBC collectively not doing their job by failing to push back on this view (even in context of a show like Political Thinking)? Is there a gap of understanding in how the domestic BBC discusses the politics of Palestine + Israel?

I had to check if David Jones was on Celebrity Traitors to parse Dan Snow’s post

Get that Mr Tumnus suit off, Halloween ended 10 hours ago

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Une vente en arrivant des meubles et effets de André, ci-devant Duc De Yourcke?

Ironic that the @royalsociety.org was founded exactly in the year of the Restoration. What would Wren and Boyle make of this Digger and Ranter?

Cometh the hour, cometh the tech savvy members of the 2024 intake?

the left can be pompous from calais to finisterre

Don’t you dare diss Lambert Simnel and Sir Richard Edgcumbe