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Bingeworthy British Television: The Best Brit TV You Can't Stop Watching

Bingeworthy British Television: The Best Brit TV You Can't Stop Watching

This book is every Anglophile’s companion guide to the best British television programs.

2019

Jackie Bailey, et al.

Jackie Bailey, Sarah Cords

Stories

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Middle-Pause

My Husband Thought I Was Interrupting

And I thought I was engaging in “cooperative overlapping”

Apr 28, 2024

Two square white speech bubbles on a bright pink background.

Apr 28, 2024

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Published in
An Injustice!

There Will Be No Baby Boomer Wealth Transfer

Please stop acting as if it will save any of us

Nov 13, 2023

Person in gray t-shirt offering you two cash bills.

Nov 13, 2023

Published in
All About Something

Writing On This Platform Is My Gambling Problem

I don’t actually know how to buy lottery tickets so I do this instead

Apr 4

Photograph of stacks of varying heights of white, black, red, green, and blue poker chips.

Apr 4

Published in
Said Differently

Quiet Ways To Stick It To the Man

For when you’re deeply annoyed, but also peace-loving and nonconfrontational

Apr 2

Picture of a hand placing a white stamped envelope with no writing on it into a bank of mailboxes.

Apr 2

Published in
Age of Empathy

“That Isn’t Mine” and Other Things That Make the World Suck

What you learn while supervising lunchtime at a middle school.

Mar 29

Photo of pink and blue lunch boxes and trays on table next to a green and black notebook and pencils.

Mar 29

Published in
The Parenting Portal

I Don’t Want My Kids’ School Sports Teams To Be Their Family

I’m all for “finding your people,” but boundaries are being crossed

Mar 16

Group of teenagers standing and sitting around a pool as part of a team, all wearing blue swimsuits and red swim caps.

Mar 16

Published in
An Injustice!

The Top 20% Are Extremely Not Worried

Observing the rich in their natural habitat

Mar 7

Photograph of reclining tan lioness and a cub against a background of green grass.

Mar 7

Published in
All About Something

I Don’t Want To Write On Substack

Because I don’t read on Substack

Feb 16

View of person sitting on bed reading, all you see are the lower halves of their legs, clad in blue jeans and with bare feet. On the bed there are several magazines and books spread around for the reader to look at.

Feb 16

Published in
Rooted

Buying a Kids’ Cookbook Was the Answer To My Prayer

The prayer being, “God, I hate cooking”

Feb 13

Young dark-haired girl with glasses, wearing a chef’s jacket and hat, is stirring something in a bowl while standing behind a counter on which three other stainless steel bowls of ingredients wait, all against a white subway-tile background.

Feb 13

Published in
Coping With Capitalism

How We Discriminate Against Kids Trying To Reclaim Their Freedom

We’ve made it hard to live without QR codes and dating apps

Feb 6

Black flip phone with smashed screen and top half broken away from bottom half, against a white background.

Feb 6

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"Money makes people lose their humanity." from Zeke Faux's "Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall"

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