The Graun had an intriguing report the other day: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/01/irish-critics-netflix-series-house-of-guinness-ireland 'The Irish Times review lamented the show’s “rud… (View Post)

Still more so, Lugers and suchlike. Especially with the newer UK legislation on strict possession. (View Post)

I have something even more arcane and nostalgic. A patriotic tea towel with the British space programme on it (Black Arrow at Woomera). (View Post)

Or is deliberately conflating them. Much as right wingers like to insist that UC is strictly for dole scroungers, when it's arguably in large part a modern Speenhamland system. (View Post)

Isn't that system famos for being the one where (for instance) people with trisomy-21 are hauled in triennially to see if this has miraculously reverted to diploidy-21 and their condition has been cu… (View Post)