The rightward rush of the media/political class is wild if you think about all the stuff thats happened since summer

Only last month, I think. The BBC started after Trump got the chair dismissed, and then the commentariat pivoted the facts to declare that the 'institutional bias' was that the BBC was too nice to trans people

Yeah, need to revise my previous statements - I am no longer asking for press reform

Individual members of the public are seen as fair game now for the kind of all-channels monstering that would once have been dished out to union leaders, bent MPs or female celebs with drug habits, and not even for doing crimes but just for going about their daily lives.

it is inconvenient that "people who hate us" extends to most mainstream journalism

lol just found out what this is titled. What can you say, it does accurately preview the text

Narrow gauge urban logistics? Peak

Surely they've got some concert tickets going spare at least

"I go home at night after 3 cocktails, and lie awake wondering, why did I not cut more benefits? Why is redefining human rights to mandate an untouchable caste taking so long"

Whats more British than someone demanding you sympathize with them while they gleefully make your life worse?

I urge you to note here how much of British politics and media - and indeed British culture in general - is just bullying, and little more. It’s a daily exercise in enforcing the social hierarchy by reminding everyone who they can and cannot kick. That’s why our most famous sitcoms are like that.

Loser ancients "may the god smite Pompeia Claudia for sleeping with my husband"

Modern elites "I demand everyone who is poorer than me suffer"

yeah the swastika was popular as a kinda-new age-y good luck symbol in the west ~1880-1930. Since you could sell it as either ancient indo-european or eastern (the same exoticism you see with Zen has today). Still lots of them carved into building facades or floors.

Probably unfair to coronaviridiae but I'm going to blame covid/'being asked to sacrifice literally anything for the commonweal'-induced psychosis

Everyone with any power in this world is insane