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The neighborhood of Hampstead is just at present exercised with a series of events which seem to run on lines parallel to those of what was known to the writers of headlines and "The Kensington Horror," or "The Stabbing Woman," or "The Woman in Black." During the past two or three days several cases have occurred of young children straying from home or neglecting to return from their playing on the Heath. In all these cases the children were too young to give any properly intelligible account of themselves, but the consensus of their excuses is that they had been with a "bloofer lady." It has always been late in the evening when they have been missed, and on two occasions the children have not been found until early in the following morning. It is generally supposed in the neighborhood that, as the first child missed gave as his reason for being away that a "bloofer lady" had asked him to come for a walk, the others had picked up the phrase and used it as occasion served. This is the more natural as the favorite game of the little ones at present is luring each other away by wiles. A correspondent writes us that to see some of the tiny tots pretending to be the"bloofer lady" is supremely funny. Some of our caricaturists might, he says, take a lesson in the irony of grotesque by comparing the reality and the picture. It is only in accordance with general principles of human nature that the "bloofer lady" should be the popular role at these al fresco performances.


				
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The neighborhood of Hampstead is just at present exercised with a series of events which seem to run on lines parallel to those of what was known to the writers of headlines and "The Kensington Horror," or "The Stabbing Woman," or "The Woman in Black." During the past two or three days several cases have occurred of young children straying from home or neglecting to return from their playing on the Heath. In all these cases the children were too young to give any properly intelligible account of themselves, but the consensus of their excuses is that they had been with a "bloofer lady." It has always been late in the evening when they have been missed, and on two occasions the children have not been found until early in the following morning. It is generally supposed in the neighborhood that, as the first child missed gave as his reason for being away that a "bloofer lady" had asked him to come for a walk, the others had picked up the phrase and used it as occasion served. This is the more natural as the favorite game of the little ones at present is luring each other away by wiles. A correspondent writes us that to see some of the tiny tots pretending to be the"bloofer lady" is supremely funny. Some of our caricaturists might, he says, take a lesson in the irony of grotesque by comparing the reality and the picture. It is only in accordance with general principles of human nature that the "bloofer lady" should be the popular role at these al fresco performances.



				

				

				

				

				

					

					

					
					
					

					
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They have the balls to expect me to pay taxes on my Indian income/capital gains




You think this is bad? If you own a piece of ancestral village farmland with a small house on it anywhere in the world and it's worth more than £40k in total (or even if you have a share in such land worth over this limit, not a high bar these days) even if you'd never ever think of ever living there and only visit like once every year because social ties force you to do so then when you buy your first house in the UK it's technically counted as a "second home" and you have to pay 5% extra stamp duty on top for the privilige of owning your actual home. And btw, if you're married and either you or your spouse satisfies this condition, yep, pay an extra 5%: HMRC want their pound of flesh £50,000.


The UK really suffers from a bad case of thinking it's like the US. It doesn't have the job market or salaries or even any remaining international goodwill to engage in these indulgences and after Brexit Ireland is looking more and more like a smaller but better version of the same thing (full EU access has genuine value). Apparently student visa applications are down 40% this year compared to the same stage last year as people realize there's no need to pay 3x what locals pay for mediocre education if it doesn't buy you a decent chance at a passport from a western country (compare once again to Ireland, international fees are usually just 1.5x local fees and their post study + work visa options are generally better), lets see how long the govenrment continues trying to deny reality.


The only migrants I'd recommend the UK to these days are those who seek to arrive on a small boat.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Yeah, the UK has issues. I tell people who want to become quants as well that they shouldn't prioritise the UK: you pay crazy tax while getting basically nothing in return + you don't even have the lower tax for X years incentive plans the European nations have to entice people like us to come over. It's like the UK believes that by virtue of being the UK it can bring high talent people over plenty of other options that only look better and better every year. That may have worked in the past, I'd be surprised if it still works 10 years down the line.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Ah, I was talking about this: https://www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-support/career-progression/training/what-the-new-law-means-for-uk-graduate-prioritisation


Surely you must have seen this? I'm nowhere near medicine and in my circles people have been complaining about it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 18, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The big problem is that the rest of the world has to suffer due to Trump 2. If he was only destroying his own country by now I'd long since have made peace with the fact that the US is a democracy getting the government it deserves and it is not for the rest of us to save it from itself. A bit like those nature documentaries where no matter how terrible the thing which is happening, the cardinal rule is that you don't intervene. But alas we don't have that luxury.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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How are you coping with the fact that they're now going to "non-prioritise" people who don't have UK degrees or strong UK links for consultant training posts? I'd be super extra double pissed off in your position, especially when they say this is to ensure "a level playing field" when it actually does the opposite and gets rid of the level playing field.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 11, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Not a fan of Scandi minimalism at all, it reminds me of middle age Dutch iconoclasm. Coffee is just a much nicer colour scheme if you want to actually live in your home (I reserve judgment on crimson, to me if you overdo it you risk your house looking like a bordello).