death to america
@alex wait that's a real name?
Just sometimes with names like that, I do wonder if we're in a simulation. Like that name seems so made up.
Then I remember that England really still is Medieval Fun time land.
I *HAD* to look it up, and while she doesn't have a wikipedia page of her own she's mentioned on her dad's wiki page (Crispin Money-Coutts, 9th Baron Latymer).
The English establishment is beyond self-parody (even before you get to the likes of Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax).
In her own words:
“Hello. Thanks awfully for coming to visit. I’m a British journalist and author, and I spend most of my time sitting at my kitchen table in South London, making cups of tea whenever I get stuck halfway through writing a sentence (this happens a LOT). Oh ok, sometimes I also have a biscuit. Or five biscuits. And a piece of toast and marmalade.”
Such a hard life…
@JugglingWithEggs @onepict @alex That bio is SO GENERIC that if you changed "South London" to "North Edinburgh" I could have written it.
The first bit to be fair could be any writer…but then:
‘I started out life, or grown-up life, anyway, as a journalist on the Evening Standard newspaper in London. There, I wrote about things like the maple syrup diet, doing four hours of cardio a day to exercise like Madonna, and accidentally travelling to Amsterdam on my brother’s passport.’
Just waltzed into a job at the Evening Standard…like you do, no hard yards on the locals.
@JugglingWithEggs @onepict @alex And the privilege to not end up in pokey for illegally travelling on someone else's passport ....
@JugglingWithEggs @cstross @onepict @alex
I rarely assume news columnists and telly pundits are actually telling the truth about their jolly japes and random interactions with other people.
@JugglingWithEggs Imagine being born into that kind of wealth and privilege, where you could literally spend your time doing anything (or nothing) and you choose to work as a tabloid "journalist". smh.
@jillL @JugglingWithEggs Bearing in mind the catastrophic impact on the nation of the political career of a previous Posh Ninny Hired By The Telegraph To Spew Vacuous Bigoted Drivel On The Cornflakes Of The Tweed-Wearing Classes (*), perhaps we should be grateful if they restrict their efforts to "journalism" as an outlet for their delusions of adequacy.
(*) A certain Alexander "Boris" Johnson