shakahislop

Well-known member
It might have been something to do with the foreign office, now I think about it.

I've just asked Anna about this encounter and she says that he may have been much more switched on than he appeared, but was effecting a combination of ignorance and indifference that's commonly learned as a defence mechanism at that sort of school.
definitely rory stewart
 

shakahislop

Well-known member
What kind of job was it? I mean, was he digging wells for a remote village or was he making policy decisions? I guess with that kind of background the answer is obvious.

one interesting thing about the international development thing is that with the english people who work in it, in the non warzone countries you tend to find solidly southern middle class 'went to a "good" university and maybe went to private school but not the landed gentry' as a default.

but then when you go to messy places with proper wars going on and a lot more risk of actually getting blown up, there are loads more northerners, loads more working class people, and loads more properly rich people.

i don't know why.
 

luka

Well-known member
i really want to hate shaka hislop but i cant partly cos he played for west ham and partly cos, i dunno, i just dont hate him. he's constantly boasting, non stop self agrandisement but i actually quite like him
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
What's that film when someone (a huge snob) says "it's better to know famous writers than to be a famous writer"? Great line anyhow.
 

version

Well-known member
Her ideology is late-era Thatcherism: low tax, work not welfare, slash red tape, shrink the public sector, reduce workers’ rights.

She wears bold block dresses: telephone box red, electric blue, vicious mustard. They are not so much colours as statements of intent: look at me, the next Mrs T. The Iron Lady 2.0.

To relax, she watches trash TV and has compared herself to Arya Stark, the teenage assassin in Game of Thrones. She likes to dance to Taylor Swift and Little Mix. She is good fun, according to former colleagues. “She is incredibly warm, kind and funny,” says one former adviser.

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WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
Her ideology is late-era Thatcherism: low tax, work not welfare, slash red tape, shrink the public sector, reduce workers’ rights.

She wears bold block dresses: telephone box red, electric blue, vicious mustard. They are not so much colours as statements of intent: look at me, the next Mrs T. The Iron Lady 2.0.

To relax, she watches trash TV and has compared herself to Arya Stark, the teenage assassin in Game of Thrones. She likes to dance to Taylor Swift and Little Mix. She is good fun, according to former colleagues. “She is incredibly warm, kind and funny,” says one former adviser.

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Martine Croxall has no competition here
 

DannyL

Wild Horses
You're too honest to be a proper Corbynite Luka. Your hatred is too open. Most of 'em are more disingenious than you and have these complicated rationalisations going on.
 

luka

Well-known member
Well, OK, that's sort of a nice thing to say but what happened with him I did genuinely experience as a massive kick in the balls and I haven't at all got over it. When Tea crows I still want to strangle him or press his face onto a kebab grill.
 
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