Patch Thompson
@patchthompson
🌹✊ 📸 | academic researcher | average photographer | all views my own etc.
Sir Chris Wormald, the third generation senior civil servant whose lack of radical thinking after he was made Cabinet Secretary so shocked Starmer et al, is off to the House of Lords...
Sorry but *who* is out there saying Samuel Beckett isn't an 'Irish writer'??
Got to say, while it’s in an incredibly grim context, I’ll never get tired of seeing English and American posters conflating Loyalism with Ireland.
To take one (very extreme) example, this is from the Wikipedia page for a particularly vocal campaigner against children having access to tech, who is also (by marriage) a member of the royal family...
If you're lucky enough not to know who Jim Wells is, he once claimed to have stopped watching Strictly because it had included a gay couple...
Runsecape, nerds in armour and elf ears all featuring in the video for the new Phoebe Bridgers song...
Reading this and thinking about what mine would be has made me realise that I am (gloriously) out of touch enough not to be able to have a go at a full Cabinet.
A muscled torso, armless and its dignity preserved by some kind of ammunition pouch, perfectly distills the impotent masculinity of fascism. No notes.
Very much a believer that Labour politician play politics on hard mode due to the British media ecosystem and associated factors. But to refer to Starmer's performance as a result of 'disinfo campaigns if they don’t ace govt' is cope of the higher order.
The American mind cannot comprehend that this is how Britain's (potential) next leader was elected.