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My friend, actor Ed Flay, nailing it:

When Farage, Anderson, Jenrick, Badenoch et al start banging the "British culture" drum, this is when arts journalists need to step up to the plate.

Ask them what the last book they read was; when they last went to the theatre, and what they saw; to name their favourite films. 

These fuckers have not the first interest in or grasp of what modern British culture looks like, in all its glorious technicolour variety. They're using it as a figleaf for their tedious, 50s-mired, bigoted worldview. Expose the dogwhistle for what it is by challenging them on it.
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ARalanrew.bsky.social

They're certainly mired in a fictional England of the 1950s.

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JPlondoner007.bsky.social

Ask what they last ate too!

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Mmtdomain.bsky.social

British culture is as varied as the British are, so you cannot pin it down or teach it as one. But what Jenrick & Co mean is THEIR culture. Not yours. Nor anyone else's. Just theirs. Versteht ihr, Bauern?

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Dandrewtinsley.bsky.social

He really has, perfect!He really has, perfect!

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PRphillyrothers.bsky.social

When they say culture what they mean is 'Any of those 1970s racist sitcoms'

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Mmarkusbuhmann.bsky.social

Fucking. Yes. That. All of it.

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Brilliant and spot on

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Moyin.bo

Honestly, glorious technicolor?? First thing the Brits need to fix in their head is that superiority trauma.

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KBkennybrown131.bsky.social

You’ve got to be mistrusting of anyone who doesn’t cherish the arts

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SCbtnstu.bsky.social

It's obvious this bunch would prefer Top Gun to anything by Powell and Pressburger.

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