The Great Moving Right Show II: The Kirsty and Phil Years

Not even a week; we got the keys on Friday 22nd.

I meant to say, though, in the little semi-rant about "family = good", that even though I think this, and Em most assuredly thinks this, we've discussed the fact that actually, at the moment, neither of us really wants children because we're too selfish. And that we've both felt a bit guilty for feeling that we don't want children.

TS: "family" vs. EastEnders "fairmly," i.e. "I don't wanna poke my eye out with a gangrene spoon, Roxy, but I gotta do it for the fairmly."

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article4172669.ece

The current rise of the Tories has been accompanied by a growing acceptance of poshos in popular culture, and while the financial gap between the rich and poor might be growing, the cultures are mixing together in previously unimaginable ways.

idiot.

https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/citd/RussianHeritage/10.EMP/SCMEDIA/Wren.Ermak.gif

yuppie wankers

Sophie Heawood morelike "fucking retard", amirite?

'great' article in the times today about 'anonymous' too, only several months late

But James Blunt’s PR people decided to use his Sandhurst background as his USP, rather than hide it.

Or, y'know, having served active service in Kossovo. Same thing though, right?

C4 have their new social / house / see other peoples lives things going, with this show about auditioning a home help. Last night some frighteningly avaricious nouveau riche headhunters who overate and drove a Ferrari (and a huge 4x4) had a very interesting clash with a potential home help who was well-spoken and had lived in Africa as a teacher where she'd had her own house keepers and who couldn't deal with being a housekeeper herself (at least not for them). I'm not sure came out of it looking worse.

The "are you gay?" bit in the first ep of that was amazing.

that sth qfrican pa was plain WEIRD

^what RP said, tht bit was also weird

Private Medicine TV Drama:
http://www.itv.com/Drama/contemporary/HarleyStreet/default.html

Oh, but "While each has their unique approach to their job, all three medics are outsiders in the closed world of high-end private care dominated by white, privately-educated men."

"The arrival on our screens of Harley Street, a drama set in the world of private medicine, seems like some sort of watershed. But what sort? Is it evidence of the growing acceptability of private medicine, that popular faith in publicly funded medicine is no longer a given? Or is it simply that TV has been so saturated with NHS-based medical dramas that private is the only route left?"
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/film-and-tv/tv-radio-reviews/last-nights-tv-harley-street-itv1br-the-unseen-alistair-cooke-bbc4-870726.html

"Toffs used to have to keep quiet about being toffs - dress down and keep their heads down, estuarise their vowel sounds. Now, in these post-Alastair Campbell days, they're braying from the rooftops. Two out of three political parties - plus London - have Hooray Henrys at the helm. Then on telly there's Trinny, Susannah, Ladette to Lady, an Etonian starring in The Wire, Lucinda in The Apprentice ... see what I mean? And now here's Harley Street (ITV1). Ten years ago, you'd never have got a prime-time series commissioned about private medicine. What next? Grange Hill is reborn at Harrow? Prime-time polo on Sky Sports? CrouchEnders?"
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/tv/2008/07/last_nights_tv_harley_street.html

CrouchEnders

old ILX

says ex-sink estate comprehensive school pupil Sam Wollaston (xp)

Toffs used to have to keep quiet about being toffs

This is not my experience.

That's true, actually - they used to be loud, didn't they?

I think there may have been a momentary lapse in loudness around 1997, but it was really only like you had slapped them in the face...they soon got over it.

"personal services required" is excruciating

what was up with the russian PA/south african lady this week???

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/aug/03/britishidentity.davidcameron

When Jilly Cooper is dropping more science than 4/5s of the Labour cabinet, probably time to wave the white flag.

how does the new Hovis ad fit into all this?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/apr/28/jarvis-cocker-tory-government

Cocker continues: "I can't get my head around the fact he's trying to bail out a banking system that obviously doesn't work. Why don't they say, 'Well, sod that, let's do something else?'"

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How is that Moving Right? More like Moving Further Left.

it would be if jarvo had anything at all here to contribute. saying 'the banking system is fucked; therefore let's... not have banks' isn't left-wing. i don't know what it is, really.

But (and I think I'm spending far too much time here trying to work through the workings of Mr Cocker's brain) he's talking about "a" banking system not "the" banking system.

fucksake http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/sep/24/bbc-news-tories-jeremy-hunt

Political equivalent of Fergie questioning the neutrality of an upcoming referee. He's only really looking to pressure the coverage of the next General Election.

tl, dr but as their political editor is an ex-chair of the Young Conservatives I don't know what they've got to complain about.

How can the Tories trust an organisation that allows their only late night political discussion show to be presentedby, errrrrrrr, Andrew Neil and Michael Portillo

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/dec/16/the-return-of-poshness

Can't say I've spotted many young things wearing Barbours tbh.

i guess some of the stigma of conservatism and its trappings got eroded for younger people who can only really remember a labour govt, so they can adopt it as a pseudo-radical pose. which is aiding and abetting conservative oxymorons who are trying to say the party has always had a progressive side. http://brightblue.ning.com/

was slightly taken aback by the right-winginess of a housemate last year who was just out of university and said things like "there's no excuse for not being a success in britain" (then he got made redundant from his job in the city and joined the norwegian army). reminded me of a previous housemate who grew up in soviet slovakia and used to bemoan the laziness of homeless people.

imo actors' names are getting posher

Tuppence Middleton

Ophelia Lovibond

Montserrat Lombard

Isabella Amaryllis Charlotte Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe

Oliver and Olivia top names' list

Never trust a man called Olly.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/nov/22/maggies-nightclub-inspired-by-thatcher

Cheaper to hang around outside and punch the clientele in the balls on the way out.

subject to louis's approval, hope some misguided students burn the fucker down

j/k gchq bros. not actually going to burn down an airport.

big protests tomorrow btw

What, at Maggie's?

o word?

busy in the LIBERRY like a real pro

also REDACTED super-excited

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"It's not a Tory club," he says carefully, but rather a tribute to the 80s – a bit of "childhood nostalgia for the decade of our birth". The reference to Britain's most divisive politician, he says, is tongue-in-cheek. "I know she's divisive, but I do admire her. She's a leader."

it's not about politics, it's about leadership.

While Gilkes would love Thatcher herself to visit sometime – despite conceding "her nightclubbing days are probably over"

where's that strikethrough function...?