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An anthropologist recently told me that the places and people that used to send the rank and file to the British army "no longer seemed to exist." For @dispatch__media I went to look for them...
Once upon a time, Sunderland sent hundreds of young men into the Army.
Last year, it sent just 10.
What's behind Britain's recruitment crisis?
@skulthorp reports:
Walking through Ashford during last night's storm, I saw the lights of St Mary the Virgin on and assumed it was Evensong. Upon closer inspection inside, I found the town's burghers trying to dance to Underworld's "Born Slippy"
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Late to reading this v droll piece and just embarrassed myself by LOLing on the train in front of a crowd of boozing West Ham fans
I spent a week relying on just the BBC to educate, inform and entertain me and jotted down some thoughts and emotions for @TheCriticMag
There's a pub in this village that has been going since 1690. Didn't survive Starmergeddon, which in terms of Kent folk notoriety here is now on a par with the Battle of Britain and gypsies
Rewatching Neil Oliver, who at his peak was better than Kenneth Clarke, Simon Schama etc. A new BBC2 series of something like Walking with The Beaker People with the occasional indulgence of his New World Order paranoia would be harmless and a bit of fun
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"Now then, now then, guys and gals!
For those mocking the Prime Minister for going on Gogglebox, it's for Stand Up to Cancer! A very worthy cause indeed, as it happens!"
For @TheCriticMag on one of the saddest and strangest places in all of England
New Acres is a pleasant place to work, exercise and resist a sneaking sense of existential dread, writes @skulthorp
thecritic.co.uk/the-emptines…
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Look at this selection of Mini Gems @andyburnham @10DowningStreet just four blacks and two reds in a packet. Time after time they’re padded out with yellows, which no one wants to eat.
When are you going to take action so we get a fair chewy confectionery deal?
The bit where they move their pint glasses to "Agree/Disagree" is like something out of Brass Eye, may as well get Burnham to spin Mad Frankie Fraser's Madometer
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Is the Pleasure enjoyed by an Algerian teenager firebombing a car greater than the Pleasure enjoyed by Colin Brazier imagining Kenneth Clark's ghost wandering the streets of Paris this week & shaking his head? In either case, the sum total of Pleasure Had is obscene.
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This examination of the Sycamore Gap fiasco by Andrew Hankinson is a tale of our time - I reviewed it for The Critic
Link below
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This sink, canvassing for Restore UK, knocks on your door.
Do you let it in?
A) Yes
B) No
Answer honestly
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For @UnHerd, I wrote about Britain's teddy-bear obsession, AA Milne, and the 100th anniversary of Winnie the Pooh. 👇👇👇
The Pooh stories were an exercise in adult interference from the very start. Milne pillaged his son Christopher Robin’s imagination and his stock of cuddly toys, only to impose an entirely new meaning onto them — an official and inflexibly grown-up interpretation of what childhood is really about.
And this accounts, in part, for Milne’s success. This was how adults wanted childhood to be, how they misremembered it: comfortable and stable, with no horrors lurking out there in the dark. Pooh lulled his adult readers “bump, bump, bump, on the back of the head” into the silly innocence of the Edwardian summer. The Hundred Acre Wood, after all, is a place where the trees haven’t been blasted bare by artillery fire, and the word “Somme” could only be countenanced as a plausibly Poohvian misspelling (“I want Somme hunny”).
Read more from Cosmo Adair (@cosiadair): buff.ly/qAKb8MU
A punchy "turn your phone down please." A forthright manner (with the hint of violence should things escalate)
Normally, I don't deal with noise nuisance on public transport like this out of fear. But I did make an exception for a confused elderly white woman in her 80s
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*you fat bastard! You fat bastard!*
"Alright yer cunts. It's lovely to be back in Blackpool. I was about to shag a Blackpool lass, and she said 'don't worry I've 'ad a coil fitted'.
'A coil?' I said. 'Size of it you could've had carpets fitted never mind a fucking coil."
"The mother-in-law has been coming round to our house for Christmas ever since the wife and I got married. This year we're going to have a change. We're going to let her in."
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I wrote about 25 years of David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive here, and what it tells us about interpreting art, the human imagination and the creative work ethic.
spectator.com/article/david-…
The sinister trinkets and bric and brac on the mantelpiece of an elderly paedophile living in a shuttered bungalow
Hedgehog among four chosen animals to feature on your new banknotes bbc.in/3TOAbrz
He basically took the villains from a silly sausage Britain ditty by the Marsh Family and turned it into a kill list
🚨 NEW: Kemi Badenoch was named on the list held by Ann Widdecombe's murder suspect
Other MPs on the list included Rosie Duffield, Tom Tugendhat and Priti Patel
[@theipaper]
