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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

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An Injustice!

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Mar 7, 2025

The Top 20% Are Extremely Not Worried

Observing the rich in their natural habitat

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Coping with Capitalism

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Oct 1, 2025

The Great Wealth Transfer Is Not Coming

Millennials, you are going to have to save yourselves

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Pitfall

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5d ago

Stop Selling Me the “You Should Work In a Trade” Story

Because this former manual laborer isn’t buying it

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All About Something

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Jun 25

I Don’t Like the “Repost” Feature

I’m not on most social media for a reason, after all

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Books Are Our Superpower

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Jun 21

The (Literary) Dystopia We’re Living In

Welcome to Octavia Butler’s speculative dystopia “Parable of the Sower,” in real time

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Gen X and Pissed

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Jun 10

Why More People Are Saying “I Don’t Visit My Parents Anymore”

They still love them — they’re just running out of time to manage ALL the households

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Another Fucking Publication

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Jun 2

Our Fucking Pediatrician Just Retired

He can’t force himself to just take the money for a few more years?

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Gen X and Pissed

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May 26

Working Odd Hours Used To Offer One Huge Perk

This Gen X’er misses running errands while everyone else was at work

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Write A Catalyst

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May 19

Resist

Learning the power of no

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Gen X and Pissed

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May 14

Why Does Everything Have To “Matter”?

A better question to ask is, who does it matter to?

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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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