One of the oft forgotten upsides if universalism is it gives politically engaged high earners a stake in the outcome of policy choices that affect everyone. See: political pressure to uprate child benefit/keep up with inflation falling off a cliff as soon as osbourne took it away from higher earners

I've only heard the story from @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social 's thread. The cast predates me. I believe it is from him playing Richard III...

Isn't it in the muniments room over the south porch?

I was one of few and I spoilt my ballot paper "no politics in policing"

Ditto.

I definitely need a one...

The article reckoned about 40% of kids will get reading however it is taught...

Sounds like pastoral supervision more than episcopacy

Violent rhetoric is not only strongly embedded in our cultural expression, it is an extremely well-known phenomenon that people consistently rate violent rhetoric used against them and people they like as significantly more severe than violent rhetoric used against people they dislike.

Some? They are harrowing. Amazing. But harrowing

ASO?

It will turn out partway through the movie that one of them (likely the ring leader) is descended from Guy Fawkes because narrative tradition.

the Barrier failing is going to be the worst thing to hit London since the Blitz, and before that since the fire. and i don't want to discount how it's gonna fuck actual people's lives, because it will, but also it is going to ruin a number of significant London heritage sites

The QAnon stuff posited that Democrats were using clever euphemisms involving ordering pizza to communicate with one another about child trafficking, but the actual reality is that these rich assholes were just e-mailing, like, "Hey, remember when you molested [actual victim's name]? Lol."