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Ed West
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Ed West writes Wrong Side of History, a personal blog at edwest.co.uk about politics, history and culture. Since 2023, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 46 times, most often “A Language of Beautiful Impurity”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.
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Most-linked posts?
- A Language of Beautiful Impurity2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-03
- Doomscrolling ourselves to death2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-09-05
- Britain on the Brink2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-28
What Hacker News says?
I think that definition is missing something, yes. Modern(?) British twee is less "dainty" and more "manic and campy". Which is not to disparage Monty Python, who were good at it, but everyone descended from them can't really pull it off. https://www.edwest.co.uk/p/the-unstoppable-rise-of-british-t... (nb I'm not sure about the political analysis here but the citations are good.)
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on “Doctor Who archive expert shares positive update on missing episode”Submitted Doomscrolling ourselves to death as a story · 429 points
HN discussionPeople make fun of the True Communism brigade because they're saying that if you did communism "right" the outcomes would be different to what actually happened. In this case people are saying that if you did Thatcherism again, the outcomes would be the same as what actually happened: the UK would catch up with the USA again, just like it did under Thatcher. So the comparison seems backwards. The essay writers aren'…
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on “Why Is Britain Poor?”Submitted A Language of Beautiful Impurity as a story · 79 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Is Britain Poor? as a story · 60 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Trouble with Soho as a story · 53 points
HN discussionSubmitted Britain is running out of babies as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSubmitted London at Its Dickensian Finest as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Britain on the Brink as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Britain has experienced a rise in dog attacks as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Who Governs Britain (In 2029)? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Doomscrolling Ourselves to Death as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Human See, Human Do as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Seed of Elon Khan as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Catholic State as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted American Diary as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The World of Peter Brown as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The case against child voters as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Language of Beautiful Impurity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Last Days of the Samurai as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Japan Caught Up with the West as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 1066 and the Birth of Two Nations as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Madness of Mobs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted In the Land of Dune as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Jordan Has Taken in More Than Its Share of Refugees Already as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We must not give up on teaching French as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We hail Blackadder, we hail Blackadder as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Greatest Norwegian as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Welcoming the Stranger as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Europe's Absent-Minded Revolution as a story · 1 points
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