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Published: August 18, 2026 20:29

RT by @strandedinNI: Brutal and true. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/08/jason-arday-death-lies-delusion/688311/?gift=_IXYI0Wrwnxuvm7JZ0fMfA_ybG6kTKDduM6vNfcTL5Y&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

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Published: August 18, 2026 18:07

Brutal and true. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…

RT by @strandedinNI: "The Dershowitz story has become a familiar seasonal menace on Martha’s Vineyard; as pernicious as ticks, and as hard to kill. “I don’t know why he’s still thinking and talking about me,” Larry David told me." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/08/alan-dershowitz-larry-david-vineyard/688293/?gift=B935a6IUQTaqruOrZCt3gFqv9Q8HyzL7dcTnzoizPy4&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

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Published: August 18, 2026 12:52

"The Dershowitz story has become a familiar seasonal menace on Martha’s Vineyard; as pernicious as ticks, and as hard to kill. “I don’t know why he’s still thinking and talking about me,” Larry David told me." theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0… Link Alan…

RT by @strandedinNI: Hard to believe that the Ancient House in Clare was once to be dismantled and shipped to the US. Saved by a local businessman in 1938. The exquisite pargeting on the Ancient House in Clare, Suffolk is a divine example of 15th-century high-relief work.

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Published: August 18, 2026 06:00

Hard to believe that the Ancient House in Clare was once to be dismantled and shipped to the US. Saved by a local businessman in 1938. The exquisite pargeting on the Ancient House in Clare, Suffolk is a divine example of 15th-century high-relief work.

RT by @strandedinNI: Remember, the likes of Nigel Farage and Rupert Lowe didn’t make Britain racist - they just made the racists feel comfortable enough to show their faces in public.

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Published: August 16, 2026 07:11

Remember, the likes of Nigel Farage and Rupert Lowe didn’t make Britain racist - they just made the racists feel comfortable enough to show their faces in public.

RT by @strandedinNI: I think this stems from two things, both of which go well beyond what we tell people to wear at airports. First, people love to look down upon the masses as though they're not part of the group. For instance, men who are into traditional men's tailoring often lament the fall of Brooks Brothers, the oldest traditional men's clothier in the United States. Brothers Brothers is the company that put American men in sack suits, Oxford cloth button-downs, Shetland sweaters, rep striped ties, and penny loafers. Today we call that "Ivy Style." During the first half of the 20th century, Brooks Brothers mostly dressed that upwardly mobile class of Americans who saw their fortunes rise with industrial capitalism. Until 1971, they operated eleven stores across the United States, all in urban, cosmopolitan centers such as Manhattan, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, and San Francisco. But starting in the early 1980s, the company went through a series of acquisitions, each time by an entity that wanted to make a profit on its investment by growing the business. This meant expanding Brooks Brothers' retail footprint. The company went from having 11 stores in 1971 to 155 stores in 2001. By the time the company filed for bankruptcy in 2020, it operated 250 stores in the United States alone — half of them outlets. This expansion meant the company had to keep watering down its offering to pay for its real estate. Instead of sticking to the sack suits and Shetland knits that enthusiasts love (and defined Old Money style), they increasingly followed trends. On their website today, they sell stretch polos, "performance" zips, and "dress sneakers." I don't fault them for that; it's what you need to do if you want to run a large clothing company. However, many people who lament the fall of Brooks Brothers today don't recognize that they came into the store during this expansion. Without the expansion, they would have never had a Brooks Brothers location near them in the first place. Their involvement with the company as customers is part of the story of why Brooks Brothers isn't what it was before 1980. I think the same is true of air travel. American writer and commentator Paul Fussell is best known for coining the term "prole gap" to describe a collar gap (when a tailored jacket's collar lifts from your neck). I don't like the term because I think it needlessly frames a tailoring issue as a matter of socio-economic class. He carried this snobbery into his other writing, such as his 1980 book "Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars," a literary-critical history of travel writing. In this book, he treats the modern traveler as some unwashed animal, a degraded successor to the more "respectable" characters of the past (such as "gentleman travelers" and explorers, who came from the upper classes). I think it's perfectly fine to be snobbish and smug — God knows that I am, but at least I have no illusions about my class position. Fussell, the son of a schoolteacher in Pasadena, California, and an alum of Pomona College, seems unaware that he can travel for the same reason other "proles" can — it's more affordable now. Whenever I see someone on here lamenting that air travel isn't like it was in the 1950s, I wonder why they don't just pay what it cost back then to travel, which would afford them a more premium experience. It seems that people often romanticize forms of exclusivity while failing to recognize that their own access depends on the democratization they deplore. The second reason this debate comes up so often stems from a deeper conviction: the idea that people will behave better if they dressed like the bourgeoisie of the 20th century. Or, at least, some remnants of that look, such as a button-up shirt with tailored trousers or chinos (but ditching the parts that actually made the look appealing, like the tailored jacket and necktie). Some of this is rooted in class prejudice, but some is rooted in what psychologists call "enclothed cognition," the idea that people can behave differently when they're made to wear certain clothes. For instance, some studies found people more analytical when they wore white lab coats. However, the literature is contested, with questions about replication and robustness. I'm not totally convinced this applies to airport debate, as it's not clear to me that people will behave more courteously if they're wearing jeans or chinos, rather than sweatpants. A friend who works as a wedding photographer revels in telling me stories about how people get into fistfights at weddings — and these are suited guests. But regardless, if the issue is about behaving courteously, it seems that proper behavior is to treat everyone respectfully, regardless of what they're wearing. That means policing your own behavior and not treating others with contempt simply because they're wearing something you don't like. Taking a photo of a fellow air traveler and posting it online for others to mock them seems like the very definition of rude and discourteous behavior. One wonders what the photographer was wearing and if they would have behaved better if they were made to wear a suit. I think it's fine to wear whatever you want when traveling, whether that's sweatpants or a suit. Mindful, courteous behavior is always good, such as not putting your feet on someone's armrest and being polite to service staff. To me, these issues should not be conflated with dress; they should be address directly.

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Published: August 16, 2026 03:50

I think this stems from two things, both of which go well beyond what we tell people to wear at airports. First, people love to look down upon the masses as though they're not part of the group. For instance, men who are into traditional men's tailoring…

RT @FacciniMyriam: Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words!

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Published: August 15, 2026 12:06

RT @FacciniMyriam: Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words!

RT by @strandedinNI: America is in the depths of a self harm episode and its being cheered on by billionaires with bunkers

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Published: August 15, 2026 11:20

America is in the depths of a self harm episode and its being cheered on by billionaires with bunkers Sara Abrams (@SaraAbrams1990) 🇺🇸 AMERICA, CHECK YOUR FRIDGE—NOW. Nearly 19 MILLION eggs are under an FDA Class I recall—the agency’s highest-risk…

RT by @strandedinNI: Japan keeps coming up, so here's what actually happened there. Japan pulled its MMR in 1993 over a real safety problem. The Japanese mumps strain, Urabe, caused aseptic meningitis. The American MMR has never used that strain. The data indicted one strain, not the idea of combining vaccines. Japan then switched to a measles-only shot and a rubella-only shot, and dropped mumps from the routine schedule. No country has ever come closer to what this executive order proposes. CDC documented what followed. By 2000, first-dose measles coverage was 78 percent. The 2001 epidemic caused ~265,000 cases in children under 15 alone. A second epidemic in 2007 & 2008 hit all 47 prefectures and exported measles into the US and Canada. Japan recombined in 2006 with a 2-dose measles-rubella vaccine and needed a 5-year national catch-up campaign to dig out. Mumps never returned to the routine schedule. Japanese kids still lose their hearing to mumps. Three months ago, Japan approved its first MMR in three decades. The one country that tried separate shots spent the next fifteen years undoing it. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5738a5.htm

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Published: August 14, 2026 21:44

Japan keeps coming up, so here's what actually happened there. Japan pulled its MMR in 1993 over a real safety problem. The Japanese mumps strain, Urabe, caused aseptic meningitis. The American MMR has never used that strain. The data indicted one strain,…

RT by @strandedinNI: Hounded to his death. Some people’s consciences should be troubling them deeply this weekend

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Published: August 14, 2026 19:23

Hounded to his death. Some people’s consciences should be troubling them deeply this weekend Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) 🚨 BREAKING: Jason Arday has been found dead at an address in Battersea —…

RT by @strandedinNI: For anyone feeling bad about A-levels? I failed my GCSEs, got pregnant at 15, left school & was homeless. I cleaned toilets for years. I'm a university professor now. Im an international best selling author. I'm happy Your results in school don't measure your full potential.

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Published: August 14, 2026 06:37

For anyone feeling bad about A-levels? I failed my GCSEs, got pregnant at 15, left school & was homeless. I cleaned toilets for years. I'm a university professor now. Im an international best selling author. I'm happy Your results in school don't measure…

RT by @strandedinNI: To teraz Wam opowiem o tym, jak jest dzisiaj na Ukrainie, jak ja ją zobaczyłem, moimi oczami. Ukrainę, o której ignoranci mówią, że „nie ma tam wojny”. Pierwszy szok: Przejeżdżam granicę polsko-ukraińską i już na pierwszym mijanym cmentarzu widzę las powiewających ukraińskich flag, zatkniętych przy nagrobnych krzyżach żołnierzy, którzy oddali życie w walce z ruskim okupantem. Ten widok powtarza sie na każdym mijanym cmentarzu. Cala masa grobów ludzi, którzy zginęli, zatrzymując rosyjską armię wiele kilometrów od polskiej granicy. Drugi szok: Ukraina jest jak ul. Wszędzie trwają prace. Tu budują nowe drogi, tam prace w polu, gdzie indziej z ciężarówek sprzedawane są wielkie arbuzy. Jakże inny jest to kraj od tego, który odwiedzałem przed wojną. Jakby wszyscy byli w ciągłym ruchu i jakby wszyscy wiedzieli, że mimo wojny trzeba żyć dalej. Trzeci szok: Zameldowałem się w hotelu, odebrałem kartę do pokoju, rozpakowałem się i zorientowałem się, że nie mam kabla do telefonu. Wróciłem więc do recepcji zapytać, czy może mają jakiś kabel, który mogliby mi pożyczyć? Pani z recepcji oddała mi swój. Chwilę porozmawialiśmy. O tym, jak teraz jest z gośćmi, że mają głównie Ukraińców, że Polaków jest jak na lekarstwo itd. I na koniec powiedziała coś, co mnie zwyczajnie zawstydziło. Zaczęła mi dziękować. Za to, co Polacy zrobili w 2022 roku. Za to, jak przyjęliśmy Ukraińców uciekających przed wojną. Powiedziała, że nigdy nam tego nie zapomną. Że zawsze będą pamiętać dobro, które wtedy od nas dostali. I że to nieprawda, że Ukraińcy nie są Polakom wdzięczni. Serio, zrobiło mi się głupio. Bo nie trzeba być geniuszem, żeby wiedzieć, dlaczego czuła potrzebę powiedzenia mi właśnie tego. To efekt tego, co dzieje się dzisiaj w Polsce. Czwarty szok: Poszedłem wieczorem coś zjeść i napić się piwa. Naprawdę tego potrzebowałem. Usiadłem przy stoliku w jednej z restauracji i po prawej zobaczyłem dwóch młodych chłopaków. Jeden bez prawej ręki. Drugi z protezą lewej nogi. Weterani. Siedzą, piją piwo, rozmawiają. Dwa stoliki dalej podobna sytuacja. Tylko tamten facet stracił rękę nie przy łokciu, ale znacznie wyżej, przy ramieniu. Przyszła kelnerka odebrać moje zamówienie, więc zapytałem chłopaków obok czy mogę postawić im piwo? Popatrzyli na mnie zdziwieni i zapytali skąd jestem? Odpowiedziałem, że Polski. No i usłyszałem, że to oni postawią piwo mnie. Przysiadłem się bliżej i pytam: dlaczego? Przecież to ja jestem wdzięczny im. Za to, co robią. Za to, co poświęcili. I wtedy usłyszałem, że oni nigdy nie przestaną być wdzięczni Polakom za 2022 rok. Bo żona jednego z nich i narzeczona drugiego mogły znaleźć schronienie w Polsce. I znowu zrobiło mi się wstyd. Nie za nich. Za to, co dzieje się teraz u nas. W ciągu jednej doby usłyszałem podobne podziękowania cztery razy. I powiem Wam, żże to wszystko nie świadczy o nas dzisiaj najlepiej. Bo przyzwoici ludzie nie pomagają po to, żeby później wystawić rachunek i domagać się wdzięczności. Pomagają dlatego, że ktoś potrzebuje pomocy. Pomagają, bo tak trzeba. A ci, którzy dzisiaj najgłośniej domagają się wdzięczności od Ukrainek i Ukraińców, zapewne w 2022 roku nie pomogli żadnemu z nich. Ja po tej podróży wiem jedno jeszcze mocniej niż wcześniej. Byłem, jestem i będę po stronie Ukrainy i Ukraińców.

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Published: August 13, 2026 16:47

To teraz Wam opowiem o tym, jak jest dzisiaj na Ukrainie, jak ja ją zobaczyłem, moimi oczami. Ukrainę, o której ignoranci mówią, że „nie ma tam wojny”. Pierwszy szok: Przejeżdżam granicę polsko-ukraińską i już na pierwszym mijanym cmentarzu widzę las…

RT by @strandedinNI: “Whatever you say, say nothing”: ‘the Troubles’ in Northern Ireland’s draft History curriculum… Dr Clare McAuley is a lecturer in the School of Education, Ulster University The Department of Education’s draft Northern Ireland Curriculum 2028 is built o https://sluggerotoole.com/2026/08/13/whatever-you-say-say-nothing-the-troubles-in-northern-irelands-draft-history-curriculum/

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Published: August 13, 2026 11:13

“Whatever you say, say nothing”: ‘the Troubles’ in Northern Ireland’s draft History curriculum… Dr Clare McAuley is a lecturer in the School of Education, Ulster University The Department of Education’s draft Northern Ireland Curriculum 2028 is built o…

RT by @strandedinNI: Brutal imagery.

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Published: August 13, 2026 01:46

Brutal imagery.

RT by @strandedinNI: We are honoured to celebrate Women in Translation Month, to bring together a selection of words from extraordinary women from all across the world! Today, we showcase some of our poetry collections.

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Published: August 12, 2026 11:43

We are honoured to celebrate Women in Translation Month, to bring together a selection of words from extraordinary women from all across the world! Today, we showcase some of our poetry collections.