@mrjamesob.bsky.social I used to feel strongly about my (potential) future wife taking my name. Since marrying a Spanish girl I am now even stronger into their culture of having both surnames. As I explain to my mother, we lost valuable names using our tradition

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Long game! You (sort of) called it weeks ago. Starmer’s currently painful decisions are potentially the ideal foundations to encouraging warmer feelings towards EU from those that have been told to be cold