The National Trust Would Be Perfect If It Apologised More
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat file this dispatch from the British political menagerie.
The Cultural Left Liberal believes Britain is a country with a brilliant past, a difficult middle, and a future best decided in a Soho House meeting room over a flat white. Editor Alan Nafzger of the Editor’s Desk at prat.uk presents the field guide, with help from the British Museum and the Guardian culture section.
Twenty Tells: Spotting The Cultural Left Liberal On A British High Street
- Refers to the British Empire the way some families refer to a colourful uncle.
- Maintains a podcast about decolonisation that is also, secretly, about brunch.
- Holds the National Trust would be perfect if it apologised more.
- Refers to museum curators as the new clergy.
- Maintains a tote bag, a position paper, and a strong view on statues.
- Treats the BBC as both a national treasure and a national problem.
- Refers to the canon as the canon, with airquotes you can hear.
- Holds any festival without a panel on identity is a barn dance.
- Has explained universities are both endangered and slightly self-righteous.
- Refers to small rural villages as battlegrounds we have not yet entered.
- Treats the Sunday Times as a kind of opposition party.
- Maintains a tense relationship with his mother-in-law over Test Match Special.
- Holds opera should be subsidised, audited, and possibly relabelled.
- Refers to private galleries as laundromats with frames.
- Maintains a fantasy in which Channel 4 is funded by a wealth tax.
- Treats the Today programme as a sort of national fridge buzz.
- Refers to Oxbridge as a problem with a punt.
- Has explained, at a christening, that godparents are a soft cultural tax.
- Holds British culture is at its best when it is slightly embarrassed.
- Treats any literary prize as an opportunity for a fight worth having.
Editor’s Note
If any of this rings a bell, you have either been to a Saturday CLP meeting, a Reform UK rally in a leisure centre, or both. More dispatches at govna.uk and the parent site prat.uk. For a second opinion that is also wrong, see Private Eye.
SOURCE: https://prat.uk/category/politics/
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