@katebevan For a man who notoriously ordered the painting over of a cartoon mural to toss the term “fun police” at anyone else shows some bloody brass neck…
@CallyOrange Oh, absolutely! They know nothing about culture, they care nothing for culture, and when they deign to notice any, they feel threatened by it. Their attitude boils down to "Anything I don’t like is filthy foreign muck and there’s too much of it.”
Arts journalists: when you hear Farage, Anderson, Jenrick, Badenoch et al banging the "British culture" drum, this is your cue!
Ask them what the last book they read was; when they last went to the theatre; to name their favourite films. Expose the dogwhistle for what it is.
@snigskitchen Glad you liked :) Re: the inaccuracy, I had broadened it to British culture to encompass the more general attacks from the right, not Jenrick's specific remarks of the last day or so.
@NicholasTyrone When he starts up with this crap, I wish someone would ask him when he last went to the theatre, or what his favourite British film is. How he plans to fund the arts. He has no interest in or understanding of actual British culture, he's just using it to figleaf his bigotry.
@BonMotVivant@TheAVClub Random Roles; the Boardwalk Empire write-ups, which did an outstanding job of teasing out the unifying themes in each subplot every week; the review of London Has Fallen, which is the most brutal savaging I've ever read.
It is very telling that Evri is about the last company on Earth that doesn’t have a Twitter account.
They have had my package for the last week, mind. I could have collected it myself in less time, and it started its journey in Hangzhou.
@mmccourty@disappoptimism In Good Omens, it's made explicit that Crowley's hardly respected by his demonic peers, who are all too busy monitoring the wrong child. And of course Rincewind is the archetype for every modern reluctant hero.