Victorians, not me. Definitely um.
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How the Victorians improved life for people in the West Midlands
Well also the Victorians loved crap like that, and it was during that time they made up all of those legends and games and things. Having successfully subjugated Scotland they made a new one up. God I love that period. Utterly unhinged under a veneer of rectitude.
And I'd like to propose a 6th group of names: formerly deliberately rude but bowdlerised by prudish Victorians so that they now make no sense e.g. the Wheatear which doesn't have ears or resemble wheat but which does have a white arse, and Whitearse is what its name used to be be.
And this British culture warrior can't even spell "honour" the British way. The upper-class Victorians he's referring to would be horrified.
Tories that want to cosplay as Victorians should be rounded up and dumped at Beamish. #UKPolitics
Hard to blame him for stuff like "the Victorians invented policing" (which hinges on some very precious definitions, insofar as it can be said to be true), but he did certainly popularize the mode
I hadn't realised the Victorians had invented honour and duty. Can't believe I did a history degree and that never came up.
Sure, Danny Kruger. Yell at the kids loudly enough and they’ll all turn into obedient little imaginary Victorians. I really do want to see you try
![“I believe, and I see, actually a desire for some of those small-c conservative values of rootedness, responsibility… honor, duty, Victorian ideas that I think would resonate [with young people] if we conveyed them with authority”, he told the meeting.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:fwgh5pmcxpaxkacrmxh7vl6x/bafkreiaroi6b3uq7sxir4eoikrcv2htqcbgmrsbrjdapit5ninfcgtloqi@jpeg)
'Identity isn’t static. Victorians didn’t have the same identity as Elizabethans. Identity doesn’t live in the past. It’s just a societal mirror. If Jenrick doesn’t like what he sees, maybe he needs to take a long look at his own reflection and consider his part in that.'
Robert Jenrick and Nigel Farage claim to fear the demise of our national identity and culture, but they can’t even define what they are | Ann Moody
Robert Jenrick and Nigel Farage claim to fear the demise of our national identity and culture, but they can’t even define what they are