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11.03.2026 09:55
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almost certainly!
The contrast between Jess Phillips’ and Charlotte Nichols’ interventions in the jury trials debate yesterday is revealing
(hoisted on the petard of marketisation)
“let’s get some market-based solutions to this!”
ruh-roh, looks like Healey mighy be at least partly psychopathic www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
it’s a troubled world, but my brother posted his Manchester Airport ‘Spoons holiday pint to the group chat before I was awake this morning and it’s so reassuring of some cosmic order
there could be a good old RTD deus ex machina ending too: we all kick the robots to death
Russell T Davies-ass plotting, this
Really enjoyed it, Luke
great piece, especially for the exhortation that archives matter. A lot.
soon after this I applied his flea treatment and he now profoundly hates me. A psychologically tough day.
But then Polanski isn’t trying to corral anybody into the imperative of privatising another public service, closing down a youth centre or everybody having ID cards. So bad at the practicalities of politics!
if you read the actual quotes from Polanski, put them in David Cameron or Tony Blair‘s voice in your head, then the same analysts would be talking about masterful communication being the supreme political skill
Article in The Guardian about how to spot a psychopath and the illustration image shows a woman’s face from four different angles
first up, a psychopath will blur your vision and make you see them from 4 angles. A dead giveaway.
feels as sensible as breathing doesn’t it
a black cat on a yellow blanket contorted it’s a beautiful shape I’m interpreting as expressing joy
be like Pudding today and throw an amazing shape
reheating the turd, this time bringing it to the table with a few sprigs of parsley www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
don’t really understand the context of this interview btw, did we bring Nuremberg II forwards?
I log on to Bluesky to have all my prejudices confirmed, and believing that twink quarterzips know literally nothing and are among the most dangerous people in existence is very much in my top 5
I was a paper candidate for the Green Party many years ago, but I had to withdraw from volunteering my name for this May because my current circumstances don’t allow me to become a councillor by accident, a likely scenario
though they’re obviously connected, the instrumentalisation has been worse than the commercialisation
You do sometimes really get it driven home that American Christianity was founded by the protestants so weird Britain had no choice but to persecute them.
ENGLAND’S SUBURBS 1820-2020 by Joanna Smith and Matthew Whitfield (Liverpool UP for Historic England 2025 vii+308pp ISBN 978-1-83624-435-6) £40 Among local historians, interest in suburbs can be traced back traced to the 1950s, following the wave of interwar development which had covered much of Middlesex and which had its origins in the late Victorian and Edwardian expansion of London as transport networks—mostly but not exclusively railways—extended out from the older core of the city. Suburbanisation as a large-scale social and geographical phenomenon is particularly associated with the period from the late 1870s onwards, although suburban development of sorts is a very much older feature of British towns and cities. The interest from local historians is exemplified by two remarkable books. In 1961 James Dyos (1921-1978) of Leicester University published Victorian Suburb: a study of the growth of Camberwell, which looked in detail at that area of south London, elucidating the processes whereby the suburb developed—landowners and land sales, builders and building finance, marketing and housing quality, migration and movement, amenities and character—and thereby highlighting the rich historical interest of such areas, which had hitherto been almost totally ignored. In 1973 the transport historian Alan A. Jackson published his seminal work, Semi- Detached London: suburban development, life and transport 1900-1939 which, as its title suggests, links transport and suburbanisation in often vivid detail, but crucially integrates that with consideration of suburban lifestyles and attitudes—the suburban ethos which at the same time was being affectionately mocked and immortalised by John Betjeman. In the ensuing half-century much work has been undertaken to chart suburban development not only in London and the South East, but also in other major urban areas. However, coverage has been patchy, and my subjective impression is that there has been a significantly greater inte…
a lovely review of England’s Suburbs in The Local Historian journal
is there a class action suit against Evri that I can join?
Christ this is even more depressing than it seems, which is extremely depressing. The knots that transphobes will tie themselves up in.
Step one will presumably involve making the Telegraph in some way ‘bourgeois-conservative’ because what it currently is is a fascist comic for members of the British establishment who’ve lost their tiny minds
this graph just made me heave with laughter
You could replace the carpets every time they get dirty, with nice swirly-patterned Nan offcuts
(also fuck The Economist!!)
Rachel Reeves reading this and demanding an even larger, redder button marked GROWTH on her desk for her to hammer all afternoon
is this good