Britain’s Conservatives are losing as they governed. Meekly
UwU Conservativism, and the end of smol government
Squint a little and the letters “UwU” resemble someone with large, cartoonish eyes and a serene smile. The cutesy emoticon is a staple of a certain corner of the internet, in which grown-ups speak to each other in an infantile tone (“I’m just a smol bean”) and adopt feigned helplessness.
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Britain June 22nd 2024
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- Climate change casts a shadow over Britain’s biggest food export
- Jeremy Corbyn wants more nice things, fewer nasty ones
- The silence of the bedpans
- Britain’s Conservatives are losing as they governed. Meekly
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