Lockdown Update Day 179

Life tip: Make a list of all the things you can easily put off doing for another day. Then spend the day eating biscuits.

— VeryBritishProblems (@SoVeryBritish) September 12, 2020

So, here are a few things you can read while you eat biscuits:

The Guardian:

The Tories' biggest trick? Convincing the world they have a cunning plan
As the cock-ups continue to pile up, some people bizarrely still seem to think it’s all part of an ingenious strategy

Meet the trans key workers treating, teaching and serving the UK
Five trans key workers describe life at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic

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Pink News: Adorable new trans fairytale teaches trans kids ‘they’re worthy of love in a world that tells them they’re not’

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The Atlantic: Brexit: A Tale of ‘Ancient Ethnic Hatreds’
What if columnists wrote about the U.K. the way they do about the Middle East?

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(TW) Metro: World Suicide Prevention Day 2020: I tweeted a cry for help and it saved me


(I may add to this later.)

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ETA - about the new Mulan movie: Beyond Authenticity: the Spectre of Han Hegemony