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Rats in a Sack: The Tory civil war is a go

Oh God, What Now?

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The Importance of a Common Accent

Most of the teenagers in my local area, whatever their racial background, they all speak that MLE, multicultural London English. I think it's a really great way of erasing sort of classes and racism that everyone's really different. Everyone's from completely different backgrounds. And it's a common voice. Some of those kids are co-switching just like I used to do when I was going down town or whatever in Dicot. You know, obviously it didn't speak loud to my parents. They will be kids that go back and they're quite posh to them, up in dad and south London. But fine. There's this kind of common accent that they can all

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