Gentrification discourse feels a decade out of date. In large parts of the country the opposite is happening. Family streets are becoming HMO havens, mini-marts and vape shops are everywhere. Tags and e-scooters the visual shorthand for once handsome towns & cities.
An angry Muslim woman yells at British police officers:
“We fought for this country! If you have any rights, it’s because of us Muslims who fought for them!”
Fun fact: More ‘British’ Muslims volunteered to fight for ISIS than to serve in the UK army.
Electioneering is displacing politics. It has more in common with football punditry where everyone discusses the players and who might win, but nobody seems very interested in actual outcomes.
Have you ever heard about slavery and the British Empire? No! Because it isn’t taught in schools and no one talks about it, according to this nutcase 🤪
@FUDdaily However, disagreeable Charles is, dismantling our institutions won’t help us. We’d completely erase our history only to have it replaced with the Empire Windrush nation founding mythos.