Status Updates From The Future of British Politics

When your nihilists are reduced to altruism, it’s probably a bad sign. We had a purpose once in society. We were a dark lens: the people who persuaded you to move away from the poisoned stream... Now, I suppose, things are too desperate for that – all the streams are poisoned, and there’s nowhere to move to – and we find ourselves pulling an oar alongside sociologists, community activists and charity workers

"I’m all for discounted rail travel for veterans. If only as it might bring some much-needed discipline to the quiet carriage; maybe a kid would be less keen to pull out that plastic trumpet if they knew in a nearby seat could be a trained killer wrestling with PTSD. " me

So weird to hear people talking abt the 2020 bushfires bc honestly i don’t think most Australians really cared abt it - not enough to do anything anyhow