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He'll be furious when he finds out who was in government when London's population of homeless people shot up
February 13, 2026 at 4:36 PM
He'll be furious when he finds out who was in government when London's population of homeless people shot up
Also weird to see it as purely fir the benefit of MPs. It's our Parliament.
February 6, 2026 at 9:43 AM
Also weird to see it as purely fir the benefit of MPs. It's our Parliament.
These types of arguments will never land, though. If the numbers are so small it should be possible to solve the problem.
January 29, 2026 at 7:38 AM
These types of arguments will never land, though. If the numbers are so small it should be possible to solve the problem.
A boat. Like that's going to protect him from my submarine.
January 24, 2026 at 11:39 AM
A boat. Like that's going to protect him from my submarine.
Because he's most unpopular with the libs? And anything that upsets them must be good? That's the best I can come up with.
January 18, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Because he's most unpopular with the libs? And anything that upsets them must be good? That's the best I can come up with.
Is that the Declaration of Independence in the background? The contrast is rather striking.
January 16, 2026 at 9:31 AM
Is that the Declaration of Independence in the background? The contrast is rather striking.
I may be an imbecile but I'm a high grade imbecile
January 8, 2026 at 8:42 AM
I may be an imbecile but I'm a high grade imbecile
Eliot's original title! Obvs.
December 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Eliot's original title! Obvs.
Dickens' original title for the Waste Land was "he do the police in different voices". Sloppy's mothers' praise for her son.
December 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Dickens' original title for the Waste Land was "he do the police in different voices". Sloppy's mothers' praise for her son.
The text is awful though. Largely irrelevant opinion presented as fact. Is it an assured military triumph? Does it romanticise the soldier? The final sentence: so what?
December 27, 2025 at 11:38 AM
The text is awful though. Largely irrelevant opinion presented as fact. Is it an assured military triumph? Does it romanticise the soldier? The final sentence: so what?
Orwell pointed out that Dickens was always sketchy about what doing a job entailed. I don't think he knew or cared what someone who worked in the City actually did.
December 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Orwell pointed out that Dickens was always sketchy about what doing a job entailed. I don't think he knew or cared what someone who worked in the City actually did.
I think this has been said about every PM or close candidate for PM i can remember.
December 21, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I think this has been said about every PM or close candidate for PM i can remember.
Don't blame yourself. At the time British music was notorious for being stuck in the past, late Romantic compared to the high modernism of the continent. One critic, frustrated with the way it insisted on evoking the pastoral, called it cowpat music.
December 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Don't blame yourself. At the time British music was notorious for being stuck in the past, late Romantic compared to the high modernism of the continent. One critic, frustrated with the way it insisted on evoking the pastoral, called it cowpat music.
The historian Marina Warner was there. She was a reporter and just stumbled into it. She talked about it in her book Alone of All Her Sex. It's a fascinating account.
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 AM
The historian Marina Warner was there. She was a reporter and just stumbled into it. She talked about it in her book Alone of All Her Sex. It's a fascinating account.
Only while talking to Bernard Berenson wearing a cape.
November 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Only while talking to Bernard Berenson wearing a cape.
This is the problem, though. Trump shouts and threatens until an organization begins to change its behaviour to please him. Trump sees this works and comes back for more.
November 25, 2025 at 10:44 AM
This is the problem, though. Trump shouts and threatens until an organization begins to change its behaviour to please him. Trump sees this works and comes back for more.
There's no reason why a work of art should be altered. No reason why we shouldn't be able to see what the artist intended. People have always resisted vandalising art. It's what we do.
November 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
There's no reason why a work of art should be altered. No reason why we shouldn't be able to see what the artist intended. People have always resisted vandalising art. It's what we do.
So did Spike Milligan. Surprising proportion of his jokes contain socks. British army socks were particularly amusing.
November 22, 2025 at 10:19 AM
So did Spike Milligan. Surprising proportion of his jokes contain socks. British army socks were particularly amusing.