Chris Coates, purveyor of niche drivel: https://oddthisday.substack.com/ https://linktr.ee/oddthisday
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There’s much to criticise in that era - if you failed the 11 Plus, you were more or less forgotten - but a generation that included my dad, who was born in a slum, got real opportunities when they passed
Always loved a bit of Hockney
An extraordinary moment for us all, I think: legendary racist Milkshake Duck is ten years old today!
Roses are red
Hay requires baling
I don’t know what the empirical evidence is on how easy it is for working class people to break into the arts, but it does feel that he, Tom Courtenay etc benefited from a window in history which is closing
“Some ladies looking on as I came up out of the water”? I BET THERE WERE, KILVERT, YOU DIRTY OLD BOLLOCKS. I BET THERE FUCKING WERE