Posh is relative. At my school (in a Yorkshire pit village*), I was posh: dad social worker, mum librarian, themselves from respectable WC families; books in the house, broadsheet paper. Going out to… (View Post)

Agreed - 'intersectionality' is a clumsy word that people scoff at, but its an important part of representation and diversity. It *is* a real positive that we have ethnic diversity to such … (View Post)

Alan Garner is slowly starting to get the recognition he deserves as one of our great writers. The Blackden Trust, which celebrates his work and (more so) the landscape, history and traditions his wo… (View Post)

He (Starmer) wasn't really privately educated though. He went to a state grammar school that became private while he was there, and didn't have to pay fees. That's substantively differ… (View Post)

It's all in pockets though - a brewery in Bermondsey, a pub in Stoke Newington, a caff in Peckham. Central London really *shouldn't* be a naff tourist zone, or at least not all of it. There… (View Post)