You could write an entire essay about Englishness based on this picture; the loathing of fuss, the stubborn refusal to acknowledge his mounting discomfort
This makes me feel insanely patriotic
Josh Glancy
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Josh Glancy
@joshglancy
Associate editor and columnist, The Sunday Times
- To the debate over whether rubber bullets were used outside the White House last night, here is the leg of a woman who told me she was protesting last night, back on Lafayette Square today
- An hilariously reasonable and appropriate use of taxpayer’s money🚨 NEW: Chancellor Rachel Reeves has charged taxpayers £371 for subscriptions to The Economist and The Financial Times since March
- Spent the last 36 hours walking around Kenosha in a daze. Large swathes of the city are indistinguishable from a war zone. The destruction in places is total, the locals dazed, shocked and trying to be brave. Here are some pictures /1
- One thing I noticed interviewing Rishi Sunak: how incredibly proud he was of his connections to America, his home in California, his time at Stanford, his deep familiarity with US culture. Suspect he had a strong emotional attachment to his green card and the status it confers.
- I say this having been guilty of it, but there’s something deeply cringe in the way Brits talk about American politics. The internet-acquired, podcast-informed superficiality masquerading as expertiseThere are currently a lot of takes floating around as to why Kamala Harris lost the election. Here’s mine.
00:00 - Always been fascinating to me how deep the 2022 seam of solidarity with Ukraine ran in rural England. This from today at a churchyard in Helmsley, North Yorkshire
- "On Monday I go to work. How are your family, a colleague asks. When I answer, she squirms. Can’t they just leave, my colleague says. No, they can’t actually." This is an extraordinary piece from a Jewish employee at The Guardian
- Replying to @joshglancyEvery single local I spoke to blamed "out of towners" for the worst of the destruction. They didn't offer a huge amount of evidence for this, but it's a blanket consensus /4
- Replying to @joshglancyThe worst hit area is uptown, beating heart of the city's black community. Ice cream shops, nail salons, faith missions, all smouldering husks /2
- Apropos of nothing, here's a newsletter that was published in 1995 by the Lib Dem society at Oxford, about its former president
- Replying to @joshglancyAs we were talking, a young man came to ask the owner where the nearest post box was. "There used to be two across the street," he replied. "But they both just got burnt." /end
- Replying to @joshglancyThis is the car lot next to where the Kyle Rittenhouse shootings took place. You could still taste the smoke /5
