This is basically affirmative action for boring people.

i’m sorry but this is a deeply embarrassing reaction to a bit of light ribbing from a political cartoon. it’s not brownface, it’s making a pun on her surname & redrawing a known image in her vague likeness. hardly groundbreaking stuff & happens to every politician all the time

extremely tragic if predictable iteration of the how it started/ how it’s going meme

Coddled Affluent Professional This article is interesting cuz the women don’t seem particularly interested in any of the men they’re pursuing just in the idea of a relationship. The men are probably a bit more honest with themselves about how they’re just not that into her but have to couch it in therapyspeak

Western Canada might just be the best place on earth - Nihahi Ridge was the coolest hike I had ever done at age 10, it still was when I did it a few days ago at 23.

Inside this week’s cover story: 💥 Tories discuss whether or not Badenoch is an “anchor baby” 💥 Badenoch’s alleged Scottish speech aides from Fraser Nelson to Niall Ferguson 💥 Badenoch’s 2022 leadership speech delayed - by a Deliveroo McDonalds breakfast order 💥 Badenoch’s

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Episode five is out! We seem to like the book better by the end of the episode than at the beginning...

Statement 1: The Universities are in financial crisis. Send help! Statement 2: Uni of Warwick splurges £5m on a rebrand that asks its members to talk like low-grade listicle writers and deploy the word "Beyond" in ways English has never seen. Beyond is this perverse...

I'm never going to get into Parliament they're going to find my numerology spreadsheets and use them against me

Adding ‘positive affirmations’ to long list of things I don’t want to know about politicians including what they eat in a day, how much they think a pint of milk costs, whether they’ve ever taken drugs, what their parents did for a living, when they take a dump.

Can we stop ‘humanising’ politicians - in another world Badenoch would have shared these affirmations in a puff piece in a doomed attempt to make her more ‘I’m insecure like everyone else’ relatable

The Prime Minister has asked to be involved in policy-making. The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party has asked to be involved in making the policy of the British - and Labour -Government. This is farcical.