Great badger divide starts with two authors presenting children with divergent versions. Kenneth Grahame's Wind in the Willows had a lawless stoat and weasel prolatariat, with Badger as kindly patrician. Beatrix Potter's badger ate baby rabbits, snored, and slept with his shoes on. I'm team Potter!
Kind of hoping it was not a pigskin wallet, as that would be awks
Such a powerful maiden speech from our amazing new Green MP Hannah Spencer - take a few moments to listen & celebrate that a bit more humanity has entered Westminster & hope is beginning to feel more normal 👇
Tremendously lucky escape for all - they'll be dancing on the streets of Valencia tonight (just to ensure another broken night)
Really hoping this is just the start, and will soon be followed by compulsary red ties, spray tans, bouffant hair...
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nigel farage tweet: The Bank of England is replacing Winston Churchill with a picture of a beaver on our bank notes. This is the definition of woke.
i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”
Complaining about & blaming Keir Starmer for a long-scheduled, still uncertain, six month distant increase in fuel prices literally *hours* after calling for more war in the Middle East is quite the flex. These are not serious people.
He makes it look so easy! And I guess if you're not corrupt or in anyone's pocket, and you care about people and listen to their concerns, and then think about effective solutions to their problems, it is easy.
Another word you might use for it is "looting".
"This appears to be the first administration to take such widespread advantage of taxpayer-funded military housing to accommodate political appointees who do not have a direct connection to the military..."
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I know, and it turns out hardly any of them look like Robert Redford. So disappointing!
'Nobody goes to the barricades against Matt Goodwin just to vote for someone offering a more grownup answer to his “legitimate concerns” '
Well said! Seems like Starmer knows no normal people, and is busy listening to all the wrong ones
The Great Gatsby - such a perfect comparison; the Yorks and the fun-loving, amoral Tom and Daisy Buchanan who 'smashd up things and people and retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together'. Excellent piece!
Have to have ferrets on banknotes because of woke
Trudeau never disappoints.
Ah, if you want the London Blitz told through the voices of actual East Enders, see The War on Our Doorstep - my own personal contribution via the Museum of London's oral history department!
Thank you for posting this, very helpful for a UK reader and also chimes with what I've always thought of as best form of political truth-speaking, that it needs to evoke ideas and ideals that bind us, rather than simply draw on those that separate us.
Well, if you kill your date along with the next person she starts seeing, plus Doc Marten, and finally yourself, in a fit of remorse, that could function as a piece of Grand Guignol. Maybe needs work?
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Belated happy international women’s day!
A tragedy in four acts
Absolutely top ALT text, manifique!
They are so scared of the Green Menaces...all 216,000 of us 💚
And they should be...
Because we have scientific evidence, compassion and solutions to the problems we all face! 🙏🏽🌍🎉
Some stars you instinctively love; some you don't; but who the hell casually dumps on not one but two entire art forms during a friendly interview? Thoughtless and rude, even for Shallowmane/
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I would never give the time of day to a book or person inclined to whimsy - exception being Dorothy L. Sayers' peerless detective
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Family names cascading down the generations is so lovely! When making my dad's family tree, I loved how parents took the names of what I guessed to be their favourite brothers and sisters as middle names for their children.
Cool look - wonder when the name Vera will come back into fashion - I'd give it 20 years
Joan Aiken's stories give a voice to unlikely heroines, women who use their words to pass on the wisdom that has ways to save us...
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