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These New Puritans - A Season in Hell

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27% of white Britons say they don't feel well represented in advertising in terms of their race, with Reform MP Sarah Pochin causing a row on the subject

White Britons
Well represented: 65%
Not well represented: 27%

Ethnic minority Britons
Well: 42%
Not well: 51%

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Now published as an ebook. A light-hearted & eclectic travelogue, as two ‘mature’ friends embark on day trips to seven Lancashire towns (Bolton, Oldham, Preston, Bury, Blackburn, Wigan and Rochdale) in search of cultural enlightenment (& in the interests of research, beer)
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Made in Pendlebury, born in Stretford: L.S. Lowry (1887-1976) remains the artist most closely associated with the north. ‘My ambition was to put the industrial scene on the map because nobody had seriously done it,’ he said. Incredibly, nobody had. 1/6

It’s amazing what you can learn from history books.
‘So what’s your dad’s nickname then?’
‘The conqueror, William the Conqueror’
‘And you’re his eldest son?’
‘Yeah. That’s right.’
‘And what’s your nickname?’
‘Shorty-Pants’
‘…’
‘…’

Hi Lisa Nandy! I’m a BAFTA winner from a small town. Instead of asinine questions like this, why not tell us how we can continue to make a living in the eviscerated creative sector over which you notionally preside?

The Guardian has gone TOO FAR this time. It's a British paper; we say "half-arsed", not "half-assed". FFS.

FL is moving forward w/ plan to end all childhood vaccine mandates. Starting with hepatitis B, chickenpox, and the bacteria causing meningitis and pneumonia. Then next year GOP FL legislature is expected to revisit 1977 law re: whooping cough, measles, polio, rubella, mumps, diphtheria, and tetanus.