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William Atkinson
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William Atkinson
@WTMAtkinson
Assistant Content Editor @spectator
Sensitive Young Man and Surrey CCC member
'A total Tory BNOC' - @Tatlermagazine
Living on a thin line
Metro-Land
Joined August 2020
- "What is civilisation? I don't know. I can't define it in abstract terms – yet. But I think I can recognise it when I see it."
We all know what the American Dream is but what's the British Dream? - Imagine surviving Rorke's Drift only to be confronted by Southern Rail.
- On my first day at Oxford, three different PPE-ists came up to tell me that they were going to be PM. Since then, I've always found something faintly terrifying about young people enthusiastic about going into politics. They lack the self-awareness to see how awful it is.I recently watched an entire youth parliament "debate" and it was just several hours of this carry on.
00:00 - "Thousands and thousands of hours of centrist dad porn, each more climactic than the last! Constant, dizzying, twenty-four-hour, yearlong, endless agreement that people like us should be in power!" Watch it all, all here, all the time, forever, it will never stop!"
Channel 4 has announced that The Rest is Politics is going to be shown on television, with six episodes between now and election day. First episode airs Wednesday 29th May. - Isn't a Fixed Penalty Notice the equivalent of a parking fine? So before the internet starts banging on about unprecedented criminality in Downing Street, can someone find out how many previous PMs and ministers have been done for leaving their Jags on some double yellows?
- A century ago, Ramsey McDonald was the leader of Labour, and David Lloyd-George leader of the Liberals. Imagine explaining this to them.🚨 NEW: Ed Davey has challenged Keir Starmer to a charity FIFA match in his latest TikTok video
00:00 - My faith in politics and in the romantic England that I grew up loving - Spitfires, rolling fields, country churches, and all the rest - never really recovered after I learnt about the horrors of the grooming gangs. It all seems so hollow.The rape gangs are probably the most horrific set of crimes in post war British history, aided by the level of denial witnessed in the post below.
- For England to be free, Paddington must fall‘Everything Paddington stands for’ = ‘being unbearably smug and twee’
- Brace for the Long March From Chipping Norton. The revolution will be televised.
Farmer Protests Brewing Over Budget Inheritance Tax Bombshell order-order.com/2024/10/31/far… 
Run for Mayor as Independent, the Vote Leave team will help, we'll crush Sadiq's shambles (watch him flee and hand over to a stooge to avoid crushing defeat)... BOSH- This verges on self-parody
Nigel Farage has blown apart two-party politics. Here’s what’s next thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar… - A splendid idea, but I do fear that if we did this in England we would end up with Stormzy, Stephen Fry, and some Lionesses rather than Churchill, Nelson, and Elizabeth I.
