It is not great obviously as Labour is somehow going to win the next election, but the person taking the job probably went to Eton and is old money.
Meh the current Labour leadership is as fiscally conservative and pro-Royal as the current Tory government, so they may end up keeping the job anyway
25k here is not like 100k there. Minimum wage is about to increase to £11.44, which comes out to around £21k for a full time worker
I moved out here to work for a PE firm in 2010 I believe and my salary (at that time) is well below min wage now.
The poll going around showing labor and conservatives mostly left of the entire American political spectrum hurt my soul
Depends on what your measuring - healthcare, workers rights, absolutely. Immigration, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, less so and declining in a lot of places.
Every museum in England: At this point I'd like to remind everyone that Queen Victoria had a dog named Looty because he was looted from China during the 2nd Opium War
"Most progressive president since..." about Biden always come off as more of a sad joke than a brag to me, even given that it's mostly true
If you have to ask about the relevance of the Marchioness of Cholmondeley I almost feel sorry for you
It is great stuff. Keep the upper class Norman French spelling, but pronounce it English as hell, cause fuck those frog bastards.
female title for a Marquess, second highest rank in British nobility behind a Duke. given to people who ruled over a borderland (in this case the English-Welsh border). all their nobility titles are derivative of what they ruled over. Dukes/Duchess ruled duchies Marquess/Marchioness ruled marches Earl/Countess ruled counties (apocryphal story over why it's Earl and not Count) Viscount/Viscountess helped rule counties (literally vice-count became viscount) Baron/Baroness ruled a barony
Earl was the OG nobility title (1000+ years ago) from when England was just Anglo-Saxon peoples. William the Conqueror showed up from Normandy (present-day France) and conquered England in 1066. he brought with him a new nobility title for use called a Count. except Count sounds a lot like a certain vulgar word which yes, not only existed in Middle English but in Old English as well. the commoner Anglo-Saxon hearing these Norman noblemen walk around and say something suspiciously close to that word made them mock and laugh the Normans which, of course, the Normans disliked so they withdrew usage of Count in favor of Earl but kept Countess because, well, it doesn't really sound like the word.
The worst part is the English don’t pronounce it “Mar-key” like it should be and instead say “Mar-quez”
man you learn something new every day, in an episode of The Rest is History Tom lays out how Caesar was related to the Latin word for elephant and Caesar’s line got the name because one of his ancestors killed an elephant
it's definitely more with an "s" ending (Mar-kwiss) but that's also not how the French would say it either. since theirs is "Marquis", they'd probably say the English name like "Mar-kess"). the Marchioness is the same thing (Marsh-on-ess instead of Marshi-on-ess). it very likely goes no further than the English saying fuck you, we're not speaking like the French and just swerving off the road to make a point about how their English nobility titles aren't going to sound French despite, you know, four of the five titles actually being from Old French as a result of being conquered. those two countries have spent the better part of the past thousand years just being petty at all turns to one another.
She’s dead, but in a last heroic act her unborn children were implanted in the Marchioness of Chumbawumba
Honestly at this point nothing would surprise me. She could be raging at Ultra or going through a major health issue and I'm not sure which would stun me more. Also getting the fuck out of dealing with the Royal Family doesn't really seem like that insane of a move considering her Brother and Sister in Law did it.
The Princess has had an ingrown toenail since February. Buckingham Palace thanks you for your concern and your respect for her privacy.