Adam Hewitt

Asylum in UK to be made temporary under Home Secretary’s plans Shabana Mahmood will lay out reforms modelled on the Danish system on Monday.

To reiterate, this is about making life immeasurably more miserable and stressful for some of the most vulnerable people, in the almost certainly vain hope of winning over the votes of racists.

Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.

Ha a couple of months ago I had a very similar experience with Predator: K o K prompting me to think..."Maybe this is a great franchise and I should rewatch the ones I didn't love back in the day?"

Sadly true

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Makes me think of Final Fantasy XII

Except it obviously is, isn't it. Loads of working class people own their own business and make great money, much more than many middle class people living in house-shares doing freelancing or teaching a few courses. There's a cultural, educational self-identifying element beyond employment

Wrong, honestly. Income is only one of multiple factors, and often one of the less important factors

A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petty Bourgeoisie - Repeater Books The petty bourgeoisie — the insecure class between the working class and the bourgeoisie — is hugely significant within global politics. Yet it remains something of a mystery. Initially identified as...

Ah good, the first person in this thread to actually have an up-to-date perspective!

This is good for anyone who really wants to deep-dive, though it's the observational parts I agree with more than the theory

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Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

Went straight from reading your piece to doing a YouGov survey, and it's notable that "Chris Grayling" isn't an answer here

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Should log off.

Not sure the headline matches Peter's review, he more says it's the film that's pointless and the franchise that's unkillable, two different things?

Though this is disappointing, after two relatively good instalments, Prey and Killer of Killers, both better than any other attempt since the 80s

God yes, I wasn't aware of the opera but the film... It sticks in the mind!

Ah ha, my still was from the dinner party episode of the U.S. Office, widely acknowledged to be its best! So a slightly different register of comedy

The finale definitely had one of the better 'tense dinner party' scenes since, well

The Rest is Rest, on the fascinating history of sleep studies

How big a mystery though? I feel like it's probably pens

I don't use my GCSE in German for very much, but at least it's meant I can understand your joke!

It was mirror, mirror in the original Grimm fairytale, wasn't it?

Yeah, "Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand / wer ist die Schönste im ganzen Land?“

And that's probably what's been used in some other book and tv adaptations, something like that?

We viewers have not yet been spoiled in such a way

Yeah this is something I feel like The Diplomat gets slightly wrong, the way some British characters address each other using American-style titles in a way that felt just that little bit off

Just watched an episode of telly featuring Alan Partridge, fire up the old Bluesky and there's Sue Cook.

Went down a rabbit hole last time a similar topic came up

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Oh and Antonia Bance, one of the few Labour MPs whose posts I remember seeing, has jacked in her account too...

I'm going to resurrect an old thread and suggest that this is a graphic that would achieve its aims better by ditching the MYTH column entirely, and just being the FACTS column.

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I heard there was a secret mash
That turned into a graveyard smash
But you don't really care for monsters, do you?

Jeremy Corbyn. I assume a pejorative ref to a famously scruffy character from an old sitcom that ran for about a million years.

Or, less likely, a ref to "compo face": the expressions people use when being photographed for bad news stories where they're trying to get compensation for something

Cheers, yeah that was my instinct.

I know that in British English, practice is the noun and practise the verb. But as an adjective within a noun phrase? 'Best practice model' or 'best practise model'?