https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-65820689 Michael Sheen wants Welsh actors to play Welsh people, seemingly forgetting that, at its heart, acting is pretending to be someone else. (View Post)

The logical conclusion of this approach will mean people can only play (and be played by) themselves; let’s call it the Nicolas Cage model. (View Post)

Simply move some of the colleges to areas which are less oversupplied with higher education. Balliol to Blackpool, Univ to Uttoxeter etc. That's yer levelling up in action, right there. (View Post)

I disagree; it is not their private education that determines those things but a combination of their parents' wealth and drive. They would likely do equally well if there was no private school … (View Post)

Because society as a whole benefits from people being university educated; it does not benefit from the privately educated (perhaps even the opposite, see Rees Mogg et al ad nauseam). (View Post)