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Sets a bar so why would anyone else bother to be less corrupt if they weren’t actually an honest person? They know what you can get away with now.
A dune of razor blades hidden in Hallowe'en sweets.
Get your own doomy Keir Starmer sound bite by combining a geographical feature and a late 20th century object of moral panic.
An island of strangers.
A peninsula of video piracy.
A fjord of repetitive beats.
An archipelago of chip pan fires.
The corruption is actually vaguely hilarious at this point.
Scotland is in desperate need of inward migration, the depth of stupidity is beyond belief
Fun fact: this is actually a form of spinelessness that puts Sarwar to the right of every single previous Scottish Labour leader on immigration, as literally every single one of them held, explicitly, the position that Scotland needs more immigrants.
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A float for every boat.
People are really invested in the expanded (and wrong) definitions of public schools, eh?
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You can certainly write about what it is to be dying, or to have lost people you love, or your feelings about death in general and these can be good and moving and valuable!
It's a bit cliche, but I still think Auden's poem about that sense of "fuck you, why is the world still going on as usual when everything is ashes because they're gone" is superb.
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Oh absolutely, but… some people have the ability and most, alas, do not
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I think I disagree in quite a strong way - writing poetry about the existential without sounding like a maudlin 14 year old is *the benchmark*.
We require poetry for exactly those parts of life (death, love, longing, depression, war) that are hard to capture the depth of through prose alone!