Christmas Eve has come at last. Dad gets home early, and together they hang all sorts of pretty glittering things on the tree.
Lucy and Tom at Christmas
I’ll never forget walking up Tottenham High Road on the morning after the riots started 10 years ago.
Those who caused the destruction hold responsibility for their actions. But it’s very worrying the government have left us vulnerable to a repeat. https://t.co/GwFY5FyLbg
Instead of making offenders wear high viz jackets in chain gangs, how about helping them get a real job instead? In my shops we employ lots of ex offenders and they wear a shirt and tie. Same people, different approach, a much better outcome.
@petedoherty Brilliant song. Could listen to it on repeat - forever. Like the Wolfman nod with the Marvin Gaye anthology bit too. He's never got his due as a writer.
For anyone confused by the situation in the UK today. Lord Pickles is a popular fictional character used by the supermarket chain Marks & Spencer to sell chutney. M&S are currently suing rival supermarket Aldi over their own (remarkably similar) character, Captain Gherkin.
@0oonthe @juancarlito88 With the exceptions of Wiggles, Curly and Connie, I'd say probably because of the patriarchy. When most inanimate things are given a name it tends to be a boys' one. We have a problem as a culture.
And to explain the problems of Britain’s Black underclass primarily through the lens of identity and then call the pushback against that ‘identity politics’