On the third group in your list - @lioneltrolling.bsky.social
“There are many ways of looking at ICE’s recent terror campaign, but probably the most salient is a bunch of people who can’t get real jobs harassing and kidnapping people with real jobs.”
www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-scum-m...

Theory: the specific people preventing Maurice Glasman from having sex with his wife all wear lanyards

The joke is silly but the point carries - you adopt the closest pronunciation to the original without actually trying to do the various sounds that don't exist in your own language. Like saying "Beijing" rather than "Peking", but not actually learning the tonal Mandarin pronunciation

OJ's If I Did It but by someone who thinks they're Martin Amis

The Khmer Rouge mood board has been a key inspiration in many of those loft conversions. Having a pyramid of skulls in the corner is the new Love Laugh Live.

Oh absolutely re lobby groups, but I wouldn't call them parties

Do we? I suppose the Canary and that other one exist but I haven't seen anything from either of them online in yonks

The FT comments on Stephen‘s newsletter are full of people accusing him of a pro-Labour bias for arguing that their latest budget is fundamentally flawed and unsustainable. I am actually losing my mind.

Sydney also does this and I don't understand how

But overall, "lanyard class" is *such* a stupid phrase. Hospital porters wear them. Secondary school teachers generally do. Peers of the realm, including Glassman, are meant to wear them around parliament and most are polite enough to do so.

Strong guess would be southern Africa