This isn't a complaint, but it's weird how there is *this* Britain existing in parallel with *that* Britain. Our papers, our news media, is fucking trash. A picture of a small, grey, mean country that is only capable of hate. Then you watch, like, regular TV, or meet regular people, and it's...fine?

Political commentary has a bias towards agency: toward an idea that the 2024 general election is primarily about “things British politicians did” rather than “the invasion of Ukraine”.