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dresses and H&M glasses and invited some new girls instead.
a glossy magazine and they had a bag of sweets to share.
They were talking just loudly enough so I could hear
It doesn’t mean anything if you say we have to invest one thousand billion in infrastructure if you don’t tell us where that money is supposed to come from. Especially not when the debate is only about how we can’t afford something because immigration costs too much.’
‘Of course public investment is great, but the hard part is determining who should foot the bill. And no one dares to say that these people in here ought to pay.’
Hello National!
‘Never in history have the upper classes expected to lose their power; they are always surprised.’
To say that there is a limit to how unequal a society can become and continue to remain a stable democracy.
It is not fair if the welfare system is bankrolled by low- and middle-income earners. If large corporations pay less in taxes than their small- and medium-size counterparts. That is not what the social contract looks like.
It’s no crazy conspiracy to say that there are those who benefit when social ills can be blamed on a minority. To pretend that those problems are due to’ – she made air quotes – ‘ “the blacks” or, as in the 1930s, “the Jews” or, as we call them in Europe today, “the immigrants”.’
Girls are never supposed to laugh at their own jokes. They are never supposed to talk too fast or, worse, too loudly. A girl who talks too loudly about something she’s worked out on her own might as well start practising public urination and exposing her tits outside Parliament. PMS-y, teenage female hormones.
