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rerum cognoscere causas 🪷
Claudia Cardinale in The Pink Panther, 1963
Metrosexuals are the real engine of civilisational progress
What’s your most PRETENTIOUS opinion?
They repeat the same stale banalities like a pagan incantation, as if endless chanting might one day summon truth
The right wants us to think Britain is on the verge of ethnic conflict. The truth is worse than that | John Merrick theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
The Elizabeth Line in London is physical, psychological and spiritual embodiment of everything I hate about modern Britain.
The Elizabeth Line in London is physical, psychological and spiritual embodiment of everything I hate about modern Britain.
I've been mixing up Frank Kermode and Mark Kermode for years and I have no idea which one I claimed to have seen at the BFI
I'm looking for a beautiful powdery scent with an extremely intimate sillage… does anyone have any recommendations?
We need to just accept that the best set designers in the world were working for Shaw Brothers in the 1960s
L'unica risposta corretta… un sogno che cammina
What is the best performance by sunglasses in a movie?
Ready when you are President Xi
Nothing beats a Jet2 holiday. And right now, @UKLabour’s introducing #votesat16 That’s four votes for a family with two sixth formers!
I'm a perfume salesgirl because incense spent millennia pointing heavenward 📿
Genuinely curious to see how Jenrick's team handles this monumental stress test
Gilt markets price UK sovereign debt on the assumption that the state’s fiscal stance is transparent, rules-bound, and subject to democratic oversight. The secret execution of a £7 billion relocation scheme for Afghan nationals entirely off-balance sheet, without a parliamentary…
The editorial standards are in hell
Most right-wingers are far too content with comfortable failure, argues @Babygravy9 thecritic.co.uk/stick-to-being…
I do not recognise the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye. This was a victory for Austrians
Jannik Sinner makes Italian history!
I find it strange that most people recognise the obvious dangers of never telling a child "no", but completely abandon that mental model when it comes to adults. So many issues – PIP mania, asset inflation, WASPIs, indiscriminate migration – feel downstream of that
Read the sacred texts 🧘♀️
Just another day in the south (how is this possible)
My grandfather was an amputee who refused to call himself disabled or accept welfare. I'm not saying he was right, but I find it hard to comprehend the cultural shift where people with comparatively minor issues want that label, benefits or not
For anyone doubting the 1 in 4 fig: remember disability is not just visible or physical - it’s any “physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.” That’s the Equality Act enshrined in law.
It is simply obvious common sense that the CofE should not be ordaining grossly overweight people who are also dim. There are far too many candidates for ordination like this. They need help, not promotion to positions of public influence, where they will fail.
It is simply obvious common sense that the CofE should not be ordaining grossly overweight people who are also dim. There are far too many candidates for ordination like this. They need help, not promotion to positions of public influence, where they will fail.