Given the number of [intensifier] [informal anatomical reference]s around the place in politics and culture, I do pretty well at reining the language in.

I stand corrected. I just assumed… it’s a pretty good series for verisimilitude on the whole so I thought Horowitz made it up. Although I’m baffled by it featuring probably the only Samantha in England in 1940!

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Splendid trill/ chirp. And the fangs of a vampire. Reminds me of my little black cat (2006-23) Carmen.

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… but there were lines, a striation of them, and what Farage was like was WAY across all of them.

… I wish I could say the right-on kids, or I, never dipped into racism to hurt someone personally annoying. But I can’t. I don’t remember doing so, but I know that perhaps someone out there does and I’m sorry if so…

… but then you’d quickly get AnL written over or by that graffiti. The vast majority knew fascism was wrong, and felt it was against British or socialist values (there were a fair few kids including myself who identified as socialist)…

… weren’t particularly reprimanded or ostracised but they were certainly aware that their views and behaviour were a bit odd, a bit too much. But there was no one who went as far as Farage, and there was a point at which opposition kicked in. You’d get NF scratched into desks or written on walls…

… some kids, I remember one in particular, took it further. There was a lad who would use recherché racist terms, like saying that a mixed race Brazilian kid should beware of the percolator (because he was ‘coffee coloured’) and defended apartheid South Africa. These kids, I’m somewhat sorry to say…

… at secondary school there was a bit more of an edge, a bit more knowledge of ethnic stereotypes without yet much wisdom. For instance, anyone allegedly tight with money was called a Jew. Generalisations were made about what ‘Asians’ were like. But there was another level…